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Language Policy and Language Planning

From Nationalism to Globalisation

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Takes a broad approach to the subject fits the requirements for 'language and politics', language in society', 'language planning', 'bilingualism' courses which are core to linguistics graduate and undergraduate study

  • Would sell also to politics students and researchers re: ethnicity, globalization and nationalism, social policy studies

  • Uniquely deals with both language choice imposed for political reasons and language choices made freely for social mobility, economic advantage, group identity reasons

  • Discusses 'hot' topics of language rights, endangered languages, 'International English', standard vs nonstandard varieties

  • Case studies from round the world

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Sue Wright
      Pages 1-17
  3. Transcendence and Language Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Lingua Francas for the New Millennium

      • Sue Wright
      Pages 179-201
  4. Renaissance and Revitalisation in Small Language Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
    2. New Polities and New Nation Building

      • Sue Wright
      Pages 248-271
    3. Endangered Languages

      • Sue Wright
      Pages 272-301
    4. Conclusion: Community and Transcendence

      • Sue Wright
      Pages 302-313
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 314-385

About this book

This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.

Keywords

  • colonialism
  • ethnicity
  • Europe
  • globalization
  • history
  • identity
  • Language Learning
  • language policy
  • nationalism
  • Policy
  • political science
  • politics
  • social policy
  • social science
  • sociolinguistics

Reviews

“The intended readership of the book is broad, and may include sociolinguists, diachronic linguistics researchers, general language researchers, and anyone who shows an interest in investigations into language problems, language policy, and language planning. … the book remains a great contribution to the area of language policy and language planning and deserves my wholehearted recommendation.” (Haoda Feng, Language in Society, Vol. 48 (2), April, 2019)


“Sue Wright's intellectually provocative book holds real implications for EU policies, for educational policies, and for governments that still act as they did in the nineteenth century.” (Christina Paulston, University of Pittsburgh, USA)


“One of the best attempts to treat the subject of language in modern Europe I've ever read. Sue Wright not only masters the relevant details of European history but also the historical interpretations of those details.” (John E. Joseph, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, UK)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Sue Wright

About the author

Sue Wright is Research Professor at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is co-editor of Sociolinguistica and the Language and Globalization book series. She is the author of numerous publications on the linguistic dimension of nation building, globalisation, democracy and migration and on the linguistic effects of technological developments in communication.

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eBook USD 54.99
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 69.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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