| Description |
1 online resource (756 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics |
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Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics.
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| Contents |
Cover; The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I Definition and principles; 1 What is language policy?; 2 History of the field: a sketch; Introductory remarks; Periodization of language policy and planning; Examples from the now distant past; The French academy; European national movements; Soviet Union of the 1920s and 1930s; Czechoslovakia and the Prague Linguistic School; 'Classic language planning'; Critique of classic language planning |
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Valuing variation and diversity, and the 'Reversing Language Shift' modelLanguage management framework; Concluding remarks; 3 Philosophy of language policy; Non-rights-cased approaches to language policy; Linguistic diversity as a public good; The case for convergence; Rights-based approaches to language regulation; Classifying language rights; Language liberties; Language accommodations; Making language rights 'official'; Conclusion; 4 Language policy, the nation and nationalism; The Revolution, the sovereign people and contractual nationalism: the French model |
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Romanticism, das Volk and ethno-linguistic nationalism: the German modelNationalism, the academy and language planning; Status, corpus and acquisition planning; Status planning; Corpus planning; Acquisition planning; Language in a post-national era?; The small state, revitalization and renaissance of lesser used languages; Globalization, transnationalism and new language practices; Conclusions; 5 Ethnic identity and language policy; What is ethnic identity and how is it linked to language and language policy?; The link between ethnic identity and language policy in historical perspective |
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The rise of European nation-states and language policyDissolution of colonial empires and the rise of language policy as a field; Postmodern positions on ethnic identity and critical language policy; Principles, framework and cases; The case of Luxembourgish: language maintenance and development; The case of Māori: Language revitalization and development; The case of Tseltal and Tsotsil: language under threat; The case of Gallo: language shift; Conclusion; 6 Diversity and language policy for endangered languages; Introduction; What is language death?; Terminology and stance |
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Language shift: its causes and implicationsProcesses of language shift and endangerment; How do we measure linguistic diversity?; How do we measure the health of languages?; Why worry about loss of linguistic diversity?; Value to linguistic science; Cultural heritage; Language and ecology; Language and identity; Linguistic human rights; Wouldn't it be better if we all spoke one language?; Language 'usefulness'; Policies to support endangered languages; Increasing the number of speakers; Acquisition planning; Language nests; Immersion education; The effectiveness of school-based revitalization |
| Summary |
This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey |
| Notes |
Adult and community-based language learning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Language policy.
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Language and languages.
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language (general communication)
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languages (study discipline)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Language policy
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Sprachpolitik
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Taalpolitiek.
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Identiteit.
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Internationalisatie.
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Sprachpolitik.
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Språkpolitik.
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| Genre/Form |
Handboeken (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Spolsky, Bernard, editor.
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| LC no. |
2011278271 |
| ISBN |
9781139220088 |
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113922008X |
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9781139223515 |
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1139223518 |
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9780511979026 |
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0511979029 |
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9781139216982 |
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9781139209090 |
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9781316088739 |
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1316088731 |
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1280877561 |
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9781280877568 |
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1139221809 |
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9781139221801 |
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9786613718877 |
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6613718874 |
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1139213911 |
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9781139213912 |
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