Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky

Language Policy by Bernard Spolsky

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.

' this is a clearly written book that touches upon virtually all the important and timely issues in language policy 'Sociolinguistica

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

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ISBN 13	9780521804615
ISBN 10	0521804612
Titre	Language Policy
Auteur	Bernard Spolsky
Série	Key Topics In Sociolinguistics
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	2003-12-11
Nombre de pages	264
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