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Linguistic minorities in multilingual settings : implications for language policies /
The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such thinking...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1994.
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| Colección: | Studies in bilingualism ;
vol. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such thinking has held implications for the setting of language policies, from hanging a wooden clog around the neck of a child heard speaking Occitan in Southern France to the considerable budgeting in Ireland for the promotion of Irish. In this book, Paulston presents an analytical framework for explaining and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 136 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-129) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027282811 9027282811 |
| ISSN: | 0928-1533 ; |