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Languages and Power: Accommodation and Resistance

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Interconnections between language and power in the context of identity politics provide the focus for this book. One of the primary issues for contributors is the process of globalisation and its consequences for languages at all levels, major, regional and migrant. The emerging deterritorialisation of all languages is a new and important consideration in the process of language planning. This applies not just to major world languages such as Chinese or Spanish, but is relevant at all levels. Minorities are no longer restrained by a national geographical context and are not dependent solely on national state bureaucracies for recognition. Speakers of all languages operate in a modern transnational framework which has been considerably enhanced by the development of new media and technology. People and their languages are ‘on the move’. As individuals and communities migrate from one location to another, new linguistic minorities are formed and fresh issues arise. There are novel cultural contexts which are not easily translated and the field of intercultural communication has important resonances for language planners.

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Craith, M.N. (2007). Languages and Power: Accommodation and Resistance. In: Craith, M.N. (eds) Language, Power and Identity Politics. Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592841_1

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