Linguistic Culture and Language PolicyBy 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. |
Contents
language policy and linguistic culture
| 1 |
2 Typologies of multilingualism and typologies of language policy
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3 Religion myth and linguistic culture
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4 Language policy and linguistic culture in France
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Alsace and the other regions | 124 |
6 Indian linguistic culture and the genesis of language
policy in the subcontinent
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7 Language policy and linguistic culture in Tamilnadu
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8 Language policy in the United States
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9 Language policy in California
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10 Conclusion | 276 |
Notes | 281 |
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