Linguistic culture and language policy
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Linguistic culture and language policy
（Politics of language）
Routledge, 1998, c1996
- : pbk
Available at 37 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [322]-340
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
By looking closely at the multilingual democracies of India, France and the USA, Harold F. Schiffman examines how language policy is primarily a social construct based on belief systems, attitudes and myths.
Linguistic Culture and Language Policy exposes language policy as culture-specific, helping us to understand why language policies evolve the way they do; why they work, or not; and how people's lives are affected by them. These issues will be of specific interest to linguists specialising in multilingual/multicultural societies, bilingual educationalists, curriculum planners and teachers.
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables Preface 1. Introduction: language policy and linguistic culture 2. Typologies of multilingualism and typologies of language policy 3. Religion, myth and linguistic culture 4. Language policy and linguistic culture in France 5. French in the marginal areas: Alsace and the other regions 6. Indian linguistic culture and the genesis of language policy in the subcontinent 7. Language policy and linguistic culture in Tamilnadu 8. Language policy in the United States 9. Language policy in California 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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