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The language difference : language and development in the Greater Mekong sub-region /
Language is a sensitive issue in the developing world, because language choice and behaviour are integral to the social, economic and political stability of multicultural societies. To what extent does this argument hold? Does language make a difference when it comes to development, and is there a p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol ; Buffalo :
Multilingual Matters,
2010.
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| Colección: | Multilingual matters (Series) ;
144. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Language is a sensitive issue in the developing world, because language choice and behaviour are integral to the social, economic and political stability of multicultural societies. To what extent does this argument hold? Does language make a difference when it comes to development, and is there a perceptible difference in development between countries that is attributable to their choice of language? This book sets out to answer these questions by investigating how language has been and is being used in four countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (i.e. Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar and V. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 236 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847693419 1847693415 |