Elana Shohamy

Language Policy (eBook, ePUB)

Hidden Agendas and New Approaches

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Policies concerning language use are increasingly tested in an age of frequent migration and cultural synthesis. With conflicting factors and changing political climates influencing the policy-makers, Elana Shohamy considers the effects that these policies have on the real people involved. Using examples from the US and UK, she shows how language policies are promoted and imposed, overtly and covertly, across different countries and in different contexts.

Concluding with arguments for a more democratic and open approach to language policy and planning, the final note is one of optimism, suggesting strategies for resistance to language attrition and ways to protect the linguistic rights of groups and individuals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 185
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134333516
• Artikelnr.: 38267473

Autorenporträt

Elana Shohamy is a professor of Language Education, Tel Aviv University. Her previous publications include The Power of Tests, 2001.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I Language, manipulations, policy
Chapter 1 Expanding language
Chapter 2 Manipulating languages
Chapter 3 Expanding language policy
Part 2 Part II Mechanisms affecting de facto language policies
Chapter 4 Rules and regulations
Chapter 5 Language education policies
Chapter 6 Language tests
Chapter 7 Language in the public space
Part 3 Part III Consequences and reactions
Chapter 8 Consequences
Chapter 9 Reactions
Epilogue: Language as a free commodity
Bibliography
Index