This volume examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted - Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the USA. It explores how the dominance of English impacts on the development of national language policies, the maintenance of minority language…
The second edition addresses new theoretical and empirical developments since its initial publication, including the burgeoning influence of globalization and the relentless rise of English as the current world language. May' s broad position, however, remains largely unchanged.…
Critically analyses press discourse in which the Real Academia Española promotes a global vision of the Spanish language.
by O'Barr, Jean F., O'Barr, William M.
fromContributions to the sociology of language
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…
Forlagets beskrivelse: What can educators in different countries learn from each other about successful multilingual initiatives? By comparing experiences from diverse settings - France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the UK - the writers highlight ways …
This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies on the ongoing Englishization of Nordic universities. A core objective is to contrast and address the gap between ideological representations of this phenomenon and the ways in which it unfolds in the pra…
Language Policy provides a detailed overview of the theories, concepts, research methods, and findings in one accessible source. The author reviews the latest developments in research methods, and proposes new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual directions. This book pro…
