Language Policies impact on business

[Marc Levine]

Bill 101. La charte de la langue française.


Marc Levine
Professor of History, Economic Development,  and Urban Studies
Director, Consortium for Economic Opportunity
Director, Center for Canadian-American Policy Studies
Senior Fellow, Center for Economic Development
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
414-229-6155
www.ced.uwm.edu
www.ccaps.uwm.edu


On Jul 22, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Chris Allen Thomas wrote:

> Thanks for the info. My email did not receive the name of the bill  
> well (It is
> gibberish, I am afraid). Can you give me the name of the bill in a  
> word
> document?
> Chris Allen Thomas
> Educational Linguistics (Ph.D. Student)
> Graduate School of Education
> University of Pennsylvania
> My Webpage: http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~chthomas
>
>
> Quoting Languagegeek <lg at languagegeek.com>:
>
>> Bore Da!
>>
>> I think Québec’s Bill 101 might be one of the more famous  
>> examples of
>> government legislating the local language (French) over any other.
>> Especially of interest might be how the province regulates the  
>> language
>> of business communitcation within a company (depending on the  
>> number of
>> employees).
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>> Chris Harvey
>> Research and Development
>> Indigenous Language Institute
>> www.ilinative.org
>> www.languagegeek.com
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