Read e-book online The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy (Cambridge PDF

By Bernard Spolsky

over the past 50 years, language coverage has constructed right into a significant self-discipline, drawing on learn and perform in lots of countries and at many degrees. this can be the 1st instruction manual to house language coverage as an entire and is an entire 'state-of-the-field' survey, protecting language practices, ideals approximately language kinds, and strategies and organisations for language administration. It presents a historic heritage which strains the improvement of classical language making plans, describes actions linked to indigenous and endangered languages, and comprises chapters on imperialism, colonialism, results of migration and globalization, and academic coverage. It additionally evaluates language administration companies, analyzes language activism and appears at language cultivation (including reform of writing structures, orthography and modernized terminology). The definitive consultant to the topic, will probably be welcomed by means of scholars, researchers and language execs in linguistics, schooling and politics.

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