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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780415184069
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-415-18406-9
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
- Erscheinungstermin: 05.03.1998
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Revised Auflage
- Serie: The Politics of Language
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 513 g
- Seiten: 364
- Format (B x H x T): 155 x 200 x 26 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt