State Traditions and Language Regimes
✍ Scribed by Linda Cardinal; Selma K. Sonntag
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 289
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
Original and provocative analyses of how state traditions inform language policy choices in Asia, Europe, and North America.
✦ Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
Introduction: State Traditions and Language Regimes: Conceptualizing Language Policy Choices
PART ONE: CONTOURS
1 State Tradition and Language Regime in Canada
2 State Tradition and Language Regime in the United States: Time for Change?
3 The Irish Language Regime and Language Ideology in Ireland
4 Poland’s Language Regime Governing Kashubian and Silesian
5 Language Policies, Globalization, and Global English: Bringing the State Back In
PART TWO: COALITIONS
6 Bureaucratic Language Regimes in Multilingual States: Comparing Belgium and Canada
7 The Politics of Language Regime: A Comparative Analysis of Southeast Asia
8 Mandarin State Tradition and Language Regime Change in Taiwan
9 State Tradition and Regional Languages in France: The Case of Basque
PART THREE: COMPONENTS
10 Canada’s Official Languages Policy and the Federal Public Service
11 India’s Language Regime: The Eighth Schedule
12 State Tradition, Language, and Education Policies in France
13 The Language Politics of Peace-Building
Postscript: Reflections on States and the Uses of Language Policy
Contributors
Index
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