Bernard Spolsky

Language Management

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Produktbeschreibung

Develops a theory of language management based on research on the family, religion, the workplace, the media, schools, legal and health institutions, the military and government. A model is developed that makes sense of the various forces involved in managing language, and clarifies why it is such a difficult enterprise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780521735971
• ISBN-10: 0521735971
• Artikelnr.: 26100796

Autorenporträt

Bernard Spolsky is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His recent publications include Language Policy (Cambridge, 2004) and Handbook of Educational Linguistics (with Hult, eds., 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Towards a theory of language management
2. Managing language in the family
3. Religious language policy
4. Language management in the workplace - managing business language
5. Managing public linguistic space
6. Language policy in schools
7. Managing language in legal and health institutions
8. Managing military language
9. Local, regional and national governments managing languages
10. Influencing language management - language activist groups
11. Managing languages at the supranational level
12. Language managers, language management agencies and academies, and their work
13. A theory of language management: postscript or prolegomena.