Language Ideological Debates

by Jan Blommaert (Editor)

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ISBN-13:	9783110163506
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	09/10/1999
Series:	Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , #2
Pages:	459
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.04(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Taking off from the apt epigram that "... language, after all, is a purely historical phenomenon," these sociolinguistic analyses present debates over how language ideologies are formed, articulated, and entextualized. The editor's opening and final essays entitled "the debate is open" and "the debate is closed" bookend ten debates relating to language, identity, and political power: French-into-Corsican translations, dialect in Switzerland, Catalan vs. Spanish in Barcelona since the 1992 Olympics, Canada's linguistic cultures, bilingual education in the US, Ebonics, Singapore's "Speak Mandarin" campaign, the revival status of Israeli Hebrew, and European tongues and literary genres in postcolonial Africa. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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