Language Policy

By:

Bernard Spolsky

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Hardback

Series:

Key Topics in Sociolinguistics

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Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this up-to-date 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; language choice as a human and civil right; and language education policy. Through looking at the language practices, beliefs and management of social groups from families to supra-national organizations, he develops a theory of modern national language policy and the major forces controlling it, such as the demands for efficient communication, the pressure for national identity, the attractions of (and resistance to) English as a global language, and the growing concern for human and civil rights as they impinge on language. Two central questions asked in this wide-ranging survey are of how to recognize language policies, and whether or not language can be managed at all.

Author Biography:

Bernard Spolsky is Emeritus Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Senior Associate, the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland.

Release date Australia

December 11th, 2003

Author

Bernard Spolsky

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

4 Tables, unspecified

Pages

264

Series

Key Topics in Sociolinguistics

Dimensions

140x216x20

ISBN-13

9780521804615

Product ID

1771974

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