Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy

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Overview

The aim of this book is to investigate motives for action on language. Seven seem to recur: identity, insecurity, ideology, image, inequality, integration and instrumentality. The author relates those to wider issues of personal and social motivation, discussing the language strategies, plans and policies of a number of individuals, communities and states.

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Ager (modern languages, Aston U., UK) has written extensively on language policy, especially in France and Britain. In this volume, he turns to the larger question of motivation, investigating the reasons behind language policies, considering whether such policies indicate corpus, status, or acquisition planning. He then analyzes motivation by breaking it into motives, attitudes, and goals and breaks these three into smaller categories. The presence of the factors within the carefully defined categories and the relation between them are analyzed in light of a number of examples of policy and planning throughout the world to attempt an understanding of a practice often linked to people's fear of others. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781853595288
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
  • Publication date: 2/28/2001
  • Series: Multilingual Matters Series , #119
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 216
  • Product dimensions: 5.83 (w) x 8.24 (h) x 0.45 (d)

Meet the Author

Dennis Ager is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages at Aston University, UK. His interests lie in the interface between language and society. He is the author of Francophonie in the 1990s: Problems and Opportunities (Multilingual matters, 1996), Language Policy in Britain and France: The Processes of Policy (Cassells, 1996), Language, Community and the State (Intellect, 1997) and Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language (Multilingual matters, 1999).
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