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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      02 April 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511626470
      9780521516099
      9780521735971
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511626470
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 322 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 322 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    Language policy is all about choices. If you are bilingual or plurilingual, you have to choose which language to use. Even if you speak only one language, you have choices of dialects and styles. Some of these choices are the result of management, reflecting conscious and explicit efforts by language managers to control the choices. This book presents a specific theory of language management. Bernard Spolsky reviews research on the family, religion, the workplace, the media, schools, legal and health institutions, the military and government. Also discussed are language activists, international organisations, and human rights relative to language, and the book concludes with a review of language managers and management agencies. A model is developed that recognises the complexity of language management, makes sense of the various forces involved, and clarifies why it is such a difficult enterprise.

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    'Recommended.'

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

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    Contents

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    • Frontmatter
      pp i-vi
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    • Contents
      pp vii-x
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    • Acknowledgements
      pp xi-xii
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    • 1 - Towards a theory of language management
      pp 1-9
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    • 2 - Managing language in the family
      pp 10-30
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    • 3 - Religious language policy
      pp 31-52
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    • 4 - Language management in the workplace: managing business language
      pp 53-64
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    • 5 - Managing public linguistic space
      pp 65-89
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    • 6 - Language policy in schools
      pp 90-114
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    • 7 - Managing language in legal and health institutions
      pp 115-128
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    • 8 - Managing military language
      pp 129-143
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    • 9 - Local, regional, and national governments managing languages
      pp 144-180
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    • 10 - Influencing language management: language activist groups
      pp 181-205
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    • 11 - Managing languages at the supranational level
      pp 206-224
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    • 12 - Language managers, language management agencies and academies, and their work
      pp 225-248
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    • 13 - A theory of language management: postscript or prolegomena
      pp 249-261
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    • References
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    • Index
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