Language Policy and Language Planning: From Nationalism to Globalisation

1. Introduction

PART I: COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL LANGUAGE
2. From Language Continuum to Linguistic Mosaic: European Language Communities from the Feudal Period to the Age of Nationalism
3. Language Planning in State Nations and Nation States
4. Nation Building in the Wake of Colonialism: Old Concepts in New Settings
PART II: TRANSCENDENCE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING
5. Transcending the Group: Languages of Contact and Lingua Francas
6. French: The Rise and Fall of a Prestige Lingua Franca
7. English: From Language of Empire to Language of Globalisation
8. Lingua Francas for the New Millennium
9. Globalisation and Rethinking the Concept of Language
PART III: RENAISSANCE AND REVITALISATION IN SMALL LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES
10. New Discourse, New Legal Instruments and a New Political Context for Minorities and their Languages
11 . New Polities and New Nation Building
12 . Endangered Languages
13. Conclusion: Community and Transcendence

Author: Sue Wright
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/28/2016
Pages: 385
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780230302600

About the Author

Sue Wright is Research Professor at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is co-editor of Sociolinguistica and the Language and Globalization book series. She is the author of numerous publications on the linguistic dimension of nation building, globalisation, democracy and migration and on the linguistic effects of technological developments in communication.