Ideology and Image: Britain and Language

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Multilingual Matters, 01.01.2003 - 208 Seiten
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.
 

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This book
12
The nonterritorial communities
34
Communities individuals
40
from 880 to the 1950s
63
Nonpolitical language planning
77
Societies and associations
84
Dictionaries grammars and style manuals
90
Language rights
91
Language as a resource for the state
123
Language as a political problem
143
Scotland
165
British language policy and planning in perspective
173
Language and power
184
References
198
Index
205
Urheberrecht

Language as a resource for citizens
107

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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).

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