ISBN:
9780511615245
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0521804612
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0521011752
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9780521011754
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9780521804615
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (460 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Key topics in sociolinguistics
Series Statement:
Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Spolsky, Bernard, 1932 - Language policy
DDC:
306.449
Keywords:
Language policy
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Language planning
;
Language policy
;
Language planning
;
Language policy
;
Language planning
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Sprachpolitik
Abstract:
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; 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; Preface; 1 Language practices, ideology and beliefs, and management and planning; Language policy in the news; What are the data?; What is language policy?; Linguistic ecology; Intervention (management, planning); Language and language practices; Levels; Language policy and policies; Language ideology and beliefs; (Policy) under what conditions?; 2 Driving out the bad; Obscenity, profanity, blasphemy and other banned language ; Responsibility for managing bad language; Managing and mitigating racist language
Description / Table of Contents:
Controlling personal namesStamping out sexist language; Language purism; Purifying turkish; Purificationconclusions; 3 Pursuing the good and dealing with the new; Language cultivation; Adopting, adapting and even creating writing systems; Fixing spelling; Fixing the spelling system; Dealing with the new: lexicon follows culture; Lexical elaboration: planned or laissez-faire?; The contamination of modernization; 4 The nature of language policy and its domains; Towards a theory of language policy; Domains; Families; School; Religion and religious organizations; The workplace
Description / Table of Contents:
Supra-national groupingsNations and states (polities); 5 Two monolingual politiesIceland and France; Towards parsimony; Presumably monolingual countries; Iceland as a monolingual polity; Preserving french identity; The founding of the French Academy; Equality or liberty; French language management; The other languages of France; Language acquisition management; French d i f fusion policy; The motivation for French language policy; Has French language policy worked?; Monolingual polities -- tentative conclusions; 6 How English spread; The spread of english; Causes of spread
Description / Table of Contents:
Conspiracy theoryImperialism, linguistic imperialism and globalization; English diffusion in the UK; English in the colonies; Empirical study of linguistic imperialism; The global language system; Was or did english sapread?; 7 Does the US have a language policy or just civil rights?; Language in the us constitution; Immigration to the United States; US language practice and beliefs; US language management; Language as a civil right; The Bilingual Education Act; Testing; Managing language acquisition; Language in civil rights; Defending English in the United States
Description / Table of Contents:
The end of the Bilingual Education ActLanguage as a civil right, continued; Towards a comprehensive theory of language rights; Language policy or civil rights: summary; 8 Language rights; The rights of linguistic minorities; The origin of linguistic rights; Language rights between the world wars; Linguistic rights in the second half of the twentieth century - international bodies; The European Union and the European Community; The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; Advocating linguistic human rights; Summary on rights; 9 Monolingual polities under pressure
Description / Table of Contents:
Post-colonialism 1monolingual in a local indigenous language
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511615245
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