New book on South Asian languages: Spooner & Schiffman (eds.)

[Harold Schiffman]

VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:27 AM, John Peterson
<peterson at rz.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
> Editors:  Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York
>         John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
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> It is with great pride that we announce the publication of the second volume
> in the series "Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages":
>
> Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors. The
> Changing Politics of Language Choice.
>
> Edited by Harold F. Schiffman and Brian Spooner
>
> http://www.brill.nl/language-policy-and-language-conflict-afghanistan-and-its-neighbors
>
> Hardback: ISBN:  9789004201453 Pages: 388 Price: Europe EURO 128
> Hardback: ISBN:  9789004201453 Pages: 388 Price: U.S. $ 176
>
>
> Abstract:
>
> Language policy in Central Asia, Afghanistan and the immediately surrounding
> neighboring countries has a long and varied history. The Iranian revolution
> of 1978, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the ongoing conflict
> in Afghanistan since 2001 have left the area in a state of flux. This volume
> gives a better picture about what is official and explicit, what is not
> official but implicit or general practice, and what the likely future
> developments might be. It is very clear that multilingualism, whether it
> involves Persian, Russian or English in addition to other languages, not
> only has long been a part of the scene, but will probably continue to be so.
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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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