32.2081, Books: Rethinking Language Policy: Spolsky

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:29:16
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Rethinking Language Policy: Spolsky

 


Title: Rethinking Language Policy 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
	   www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
	

Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-rethinking-language-policy.html 


Author: Bernard Spolsky

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474485494 Pages: 276 Price: U.K. £ 80 Comment: ePub
Electronic: ISBN:  9781474485487 Pages: 276 Price: U.K. £ 80 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474485463 Pages: 276 Price: U.K. £ 80


Abstract:

The definitive guide to the field of language policy, rich with examples.

* Explores a theory of language policy starting with the individual speaker
rather than the nation

* Draws on a range of examples and case studies including examples of
threatened indigenous and minority languages throughout the world

* Surveys the language practices, beliefs, and planning efforts of a wide
range of stakeholders including families, public institutions and local and
national activists

Drawing on four decades of research, Bernard Spolsky presents an updated
theory of language policy that starts with the individual speaker instead of
the nation. In this book, he surveys the language practices, beliefs, and
planning efforts of individuals, families, public and private institutions,
local and national activists, advocates and managers, and nations. He examines
the diversity of linguistic repertoires and the multiplicity of forces,
linguistic and non-linguistic, which account for language shift and
maintenance. By starting with the individual speaker and moving through the
various levels and domains, Spolsky shows the many different policies with
which a national government must compete and illustrates why national policy
is so difficult. A definitive guide to the field, this is essential reading
for policy makers, stakeholders, researchers, and students of language policy.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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