Policy and planning for endangered languages
"Language policy issues are imbued with a powerful symbolism that is often linked to questions of identity, with the suppression or failure to recognise and support a given endangered variety representing a refusal to grant a 'voice' to the corresponding ethno-cultural community…
The nine extensive essays of this volume are by specialists on South Asia whose research focus includes the extremely complicated problematics of the linguistic situation there. It is devoted to the broadly understood problem of defining Hindi as well as indicating the different…
This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies, analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand, and the d…
Usage guides, or language advice manuals, are being published in large numbers, both in Britain and the US. The first titles that usually spring to mind are Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926) or Sir Ernest Gowers's Complete Plain Words (1954). Yet as a phenomenon, they are muc…
Reúne 9 trabajos que analizan la situación de las lenguas de España (gallego, vasco, catalán y asturiano), con información sobre las diversas realidades lingüísticas y su evolución desde la Transición hasta la actualidad.
