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Language spread and language policy : issues, implications, and case studies

Title
Language spread and language policy : issues, implications, and case studies / Peter H. Lowenberg, editor.
Author
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (1987)
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©1988.

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Additional Authors
Lowenberg, Peter H.
Description
xvi, 408 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Series Statement
  • Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics ; 1987
  • Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics ; 1987.
Subject
  • Language spread > Congresses
  • Language policy > Congresses
  • Linguistics > Congresses
  • Languages, Modern > Study and teaching > Congresses
  • 17.22 language planning and policy
  • Language policy
  • Language spread
  • Languages, Modern > Study and teaching
  • Linguistics
  • Taalvariatie
  • Taalpolitiek
  • Language and languages > Variation > Congresses
  • Diffusion des langues > Congrès
  • Politique linguistique > Congrès
  • Linguistique > Congrès
  • Langues vivantes > Étude et enseignement > Congrès
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
$t Language spread and language policy for endangered languages / $r Joshua A. Fishman -- $t Language spread and language policy : The prototype of Latin and Greek / $r Henry and Renee Kahane -- $t Language contact, variation, and diffusion : Microlevel community perspectives / $r John R. Rickford -- $t The spread of language change : Verifying inferences of linguistic diffusion / $r Henrietta Cedergren -- $t Code swiching and types of multilingual communities / $r Carol Myers Scotton -- $t Variation as language policy : A unique national case / $r Einar Haugen -- $t Language status and language accommodation along a linguistic border / $r Shana Poplack -- $t Standardization as a form of language spread / $r Charles A. Ferguson -- $t Language spread and the writing of grammars / $r Sidney Greenbaum -- $t Planning language acquisition / $r Robert L. Cooper -- $t Language policy and social power : Gender and ethnic issues / $r Patricia C. Nichols -- $t Language policy and change : Sexist language in the periodical news media / $r Ralph Fasold -- $t The spread of English and sacred linguistic cows / $r Braj B. Kachru -- $t The question of standards in the international use of English / $r Randolph Quirk -- $t Intelligibility and acceptability in verbal communication / $r Eugene A. Nida -- $t Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural intelligibility / $r Kari Sajavaara -- $t Language spread and issues of intelligibility / $r Larry E. Smith -- $t Particular treasures : On being and becoming a speaker of English / $r John J. Staczek -- $t Language variation, attitudes, and rivalry : The spread of Hindi in India / $r S.N. Sridhar -- $t Language teaching contributes to and is influenced by the spread of languages / $r Peter Strevens -- $t Educational language policy in the Philippines : A case study / $r G. Richard Tucker -- $t Language spread in modes of use / $r Henry G. Widdowson -- $t The literary dimension of the spread of English : Creativity in a second tongue / $r Edwin Thumboo.
ISBN
  • 0878401229
  • 9780878401222
OCLC
  • ocm17601327
  • 17601327
  • SCSB-8813082
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library