[lg policy] Fwd: New book on South Asian languages: Spooner & Schiffman (eds.)

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: John Peterson <peterson at rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:27 AM

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

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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