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Language policy /

Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy: ideas of correctness and bad language; bilingualism and multilingualism; language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spolsky, Bernard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Key topics in sociolinguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language practices, ideology and beliefs, and management and planning
  • Driving out the bad
  • Pursuing the good and dealing with the new
  • The nature of language policy and its domains
  • Two monolingual polities
  • Iceland and France
  • How English spread
  • Does the US have a language policy or just civil rights?
  • Language rights
  • Monolingual polities under pressure
  • Monolingual polities with recognized linguistic minorities
  • Partitioning language space
  • two, three, many
  • Resisting language shift.