Language Policy: Key Topics In Sociolinguistics
The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be...
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An up-to-date introduction exploring many debates at the forefront of modern national language policy.
List of tablesPreface1Language practices, ideology and beliefs, and management and planning12Driving out the bad163Pursuing the good and dealing with the new264The nature of language policy and its domains395Two monolingual polities - Iceland and France576How English spread767Does the US have a language policy or just civil rights?928Language rights1139Monolingual polities under pressure13310Monolingual polities with recognized linguistic minorities14311Partitioning language space - two, three, many16112Resisting language shift18613Conclusions217List of references224Index243
