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Language Planning in the Soviet Union
โ Scribed by Michael Kirkwood (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 239
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Language Planning: Some Methodological Preliminaries....Pages 1-22
Soviet Language Planning 1917โ53....Pages 23-45
Soviet Language Planning since 1953....Pages 46-63
Mechanisms: Policy Formation and Implementation....Pages 64-84
Planned Language Change in Russian since 1917....Pages 85-99
Uzbekistan: Republic of Many Tongues....Pages 100-122
Aspects of Language Planning in Georgia (Georgian and Abkhaz) ....Pages 123-144
Language Planning in the Soviet Baltic Republics: An Analysis of Demographic and Sociological Trends....Pages 145-173
Ukrainian and Belorussian โ a testing ground....Pages 174-188
Language Policy and Linguistic Trends in Soviet Moldavia....Pages 189-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-230
โฆ Subjects
Sociolinguistics; Learning & Instruction
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