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Language Management
Hardback
Main Details
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Language Management
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Bernard Spolsky
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:322 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 19 |
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| Category/Genre | Sociolinguistics |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521516099
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| Classifications | Dewey:306.449 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
2 April 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Language policy is all about choices. If you are bilingual or plurilingual, you have to choose which language to use. Even if you speak only one language, you have choices of dialects and styles. Some of these choices are the result of management, reflecting conscious and explicit efforts by language managers to control the choices. This book presents a specific theory of language management. Bernard Spolsky reviews research on the family, religion, the workplace, the media, schools, legal and health institutions, the military and government. Also discussed are language activists, international organisations, and human rights relative to language, and the book concludes with a review of language managers and management agencies. A model is developed that recognises the complexity of language management, makes sense of the various forces involved, and clarifies why it is such a difficult enterprise.
Author Biography
Bernard Spolsky is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His recent publications include Language Policy (Cambridge, 2004) and Handbook of Educational Linguistics (with Hult, eds., 2008).
Reviews'Recommended.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
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