Ideology and Image: Britain and Language

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Multilingual Matters, 1 janv. 2003 - 208 pages
This text describes and evaluates recent language planning and policy in the British Isles. Issues including minority language rights, language resources for the state and the citizen, and problems such as the standard English battle and policy for Welsh and Gaelic are analysed against the background of detailed study of contemporary British society and politics.
 

Table des matières

viii
15
linguistic repertoires
27
for what ends?
63
Social political and economic aims
72
Societies and associations
84
Dictionaries grammars and style manuals
90
Language rights
91
Language as a resource for citizens
107
Language as a resource for the state
123
Language as a political problem
143
Scotland
165
British language policy and planning in perspective
173
Appendix
189
References
198
Index
205
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À propos de l'auteur (2003)

Dennis Ager is is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages at Aston University, UK. His interests lie in language behaviour at the interface between language and society. He is the author of Sociolinguistics and Contemporary French (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and of Language, Community and the State (Intellect, 1997). His most recent books on language policy are Identity, Insecurity and Image. France and Language (Multilingual Matters, No 112) (Multilingual Matters, 1999) and Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy (Multilingual Matters, No 119) (Multilingual Matters, 2001).

Informations bibliographiques

TitreIdeology and Image: Britain and Language
English in Africa
Volume 124 de Multilingual matters
AuteurD. E. Ager
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurMultilingual Matters, 2003
ISBN1853596590, 9781853596599
Longueur208 pages
  
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