Linguistic Culture and Language Policy
Price: $53.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-18406-9
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 5th March 1998
- Pages: 368
About the Book
By looking closely at the multilingual democracies of India, France and the USA, Harold F. Schiffman examines how language policy is primarily a social construct based on belief systems, attitudes and myths.Linguistic Culture and Language Policy exposes language policy as culture-specific, helping us to understand why language policies evolve the way they do; why they work, or not; and how people's lives are affected by them. These issues will be of specific interest to linguists specialising in multilingual/multicultural societies, bilingual educationalists, curriculum planners and teachers.
About the Author(s)
Harold F. Schiffman is Professor of South Asian Regional Studies and Luce Professor of Language Learning at the University of PennsylvaniaCustomers who bought Linguistic Culture and Language Policy also bought:
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