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> Title: Languages in a Globalising World
> 			
> Publication Year: 2003
> Publisher: Cambridge University Press http://www.cup.org
> 			
> Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521821738
>
> Availability: Available
>
> Editor: Jacques Maurais, Office of French Language of QuƩbec
> Editor: Michael A. Morris, Clemson University
>
> Hardback: ISBN: 0521821738, Pages: 362, Price:  U.K. £: 47.50
> Hardback: ISBN: 0521821738, Pages: 362, Price:  U.S. $: 65
>
> Abstract:
> 			
> Throughout human history, the fate of languages has been closely
> linked to political power relationships. Political shifts in the
> international system continue to affect linguistic patterns, which
> today are still in a state of flux following the end of the Cold
> War. This book considers the effects of present-day trends in global
> politics on the relative status of languages, and the directions in
> which the linguistic hierarchy might develop in the future. What are
> the prospects for the continuing spread of English? Will other
> traditionally prominent languages such as French and German gain or
> lose influence? Will languages such as Arabic and Japanese increase in
> international status? Will minority languages continue to lose ground
> and disappear? The book assesses these prospects, looking at the major
> world regions, and with its interdisciplinary approach it will appeal
> to researchers and students of sociolinguistics and language planning
> as well as of international relations.
>
> 1. Introduction Jacques Maurais and Michael A. Morris
> Part I. Global Communication Challenges:
> 2. Toward a new global linguistic order?
>    Jacques Maurais
> 3. The geostrategies of interlingualism
>    Mark Fettes
> 4. Language policy and linguistic theory
>    Douglas A. Kibbee
> 5. Babel and the market: geostrategies for minority languages
>    Jean Laponce
> 6. Forecasting the fate of languages
>    William F. Mackey
>
> Part II. Major Areas:
> 7. Language geostrategy in Eastern and Central Europe: assessment and
>    perspectives
>    Ferenc Fodor and Sandrine Peluau
> 8. Languages and supranationality in Europe: the linguistic influence
>    of the European Union
>    Claude Truchot
> 9. Regional blocs as a barrier against English hegemony? The language
>    policy of Mercosur in South America
>    Rainer Enrique Hamel
>
> 10. Effects of North American integration on linguistic diversity
>     Michael Morris
> 11. Sociolinguistic changes in transformed Central Asian societies
>     Birgit N. Schlyter
> 12. Language and script in Japan and other East Asian countries:
>     between insularity and technology Stefan Kaiser
> 13. Sub-Saharan Africa Roland Breton
> 14. Australasia and the South Pacific
>     Richard B. Baldauf Jr. and Paulin G. Djité
>
> Part III. Languages of Wider Communication:
> 15. The international status of the German language
>     Ulrich Ammon
> 16. Arabic and the new technologies
>     Foued Laroussi
> 17. Russian in the modern world
>     Vida Io. Mikhalchenko and Yulia Trushkova
> 18. Geolinguistics, geopolitics, geostrategy: the case of French
>     Robert Chaudenson
> 19. Toward a scientific geostrategy for English
>     Grant McConnell
> 20. On Brazilian Portuguese in Latin American Integration
>     Maria da Graēi Krieger
> 21. Conclusion: the search for a global linguistic strategy
>     Humphrey Tonkin.			
>
> Lingfield(s):   Sociolinguistics 	
>
> Written In: English (Language Code: English)
>
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