Ralph D. Grillo, R. D. Grillo

Dominant Languages

Language and Hierarchy in Britain and France

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the relations between power and language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780521108614
• ISBN-10: 0521108616
• Artikelnr.: 26010660

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction: the politics of communicative practice
2. The view from the centre: France
3. And England
4. A view from the periphery - Occitanie
5. The politics of language in Wales, Ireland and Scotland
6. Immigrants and language: the 'Mother Tongue'
7. Immigrants and language: the issue of competence
8. Language and social differentiation
9. Barbarous tongues: the hierarchical ordering of difference
10. Language, class, power, education
11. Authoritative discourse
Bibliography
Index.