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Language Policy and Language Planning


Language Policy and Language Planning

From Nationalism to Globalisation
2nd ed. 2016

von: Sue Wright

69,54 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 08.04.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781137576477
Sprache: englisch

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This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.<br>
1. Introduction<br> <br>PART I: COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL LANGUAGE <br>2. From Language Continuum to Linguistic Mosaic: European Language Communities from the Feudal Period to the Age of Nationalism<br>3. Language Planning in State Nations and Nation States <br>4. Nation Building in the Wake of Colonialism: Old Concepts in New Settings <br>PART II: TRANSCENDENCE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING <br>5. Transcending the Group: Languages of Contact and Lingua Francas <br>6. French: The Rise and Fall of a Prestige Lingua Franca <br>7. English: From Language of Empire to Language of Globalisation <br>8. Lingua Francas for the New Millennium<br>9. Globalisation and Rethinking the Concept of Language <br>PART III: RENAISSANCE AND REVITALISATION IN SMALL LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES <br>10. New Discourse, New Legal Instruments and a New Political Context for Minorities and their Languages<br>11 . New Polities and New Nation Building<br>12 . Endangered Languages <br>13. Conclusion: Community and Transcendence<br><br><br><br><br>
<p>Sue Wright is Research Professor at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is co-editor of Sociolinguistica and the Language and Globalization book series. She is the author of numerous publications on the linguistic dimension of nation building, globalisation, democracy and migration and on the linguistic effects of technological developments in communication.</p>
Language allows human beings to act cooperatively, to plan and to remember. It is a prime factor in the constitution of social groups as well as a major barrier between groups. Language policy and planning is rarely just about language; it always has social, political and economic dimensions. This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity. The first part of the book reviews the development and role of standard languages in the construction of national communities and identities. The second section examines the linguistic accommodation necessary when groups come into contact, and charts why lingua francas rise and fall. There is speculation on the future of International English as other power centres develop. The third section explores reactions tonationalism and globalisation, with a discussion of language rights and the problems of language revitalisation.
Takes a broad approach to the subject fits the requirements for 'language and politics', language in society', 'language planning', 'bilingualism' courses which are core to linguistics graduate and undergraduate study Would sell also to politics students and researchers re: ethnicity, globalization and nationalism, social policy studies Uniquely deals with both language choice imposed for political reasons and language choices made freely for social mobility, economic advantage, group identity reasons Discusses 'hot' topics of language rights, endangered languages, 'International English', standard vs nonstandard varieties Case studies from round the world
<p>“Sue Wright's intellectually provocative book holds real implications for EU policies, for educational policies, and for governments that still act as they did in the nineteenth century.”&nbsp;(Christina Paulston, University of Pittsburgh, USA)<br></p><p><br>“One of the best attempts to treat the subject of language in modern Europe I've ever read. Sue Wright not only masters the relevant details of European history but also the historical interpretations of those details.”&nbsp;(John E. Joseph, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, UK)</p>

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