Languages in a globalising world /
This book considers the effects of present-day trends in global politics on the relative status of languages, and the directions in which the linguistic hierarchy might develop in the future. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to researchers and students of sociolinguistics and language plan...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Towards a new global linguistic order? / Jacques Maurais
- The geostrategies of interlingualism / Mark Fettes
- Language policy and linguistic theory / Douglas A. Kibbee
- Babel and the market : geostrategies for minority languages / Jean Laponce
- Forecasting the fate of languages / William F. Mackey
- Language geostrategy in eastern and central Europe : assessment and perspectives / Ferenc Fodor and Sandrine Peluau
- Languages and supranationality in Europe : the linguistic influence of the European Union / Claude Truchot
- Regional blocs as a barrier against English hegemony? The language policy of Mercosur in South America / Rainer Enrique Hamel
- Effects of North American integration on linguistic diversity / Michael A. Morris
- Sociolinguistic changes in transformed Central Asian societies / Birgit N. Schlyter
- Language and script in Japan and other East Asian countries : between insularity and technology / Stefan Kaiser
- Sub-Saharan Africa / Roland J.-L. Breton
- Australasia and the South Pacific / Richard B. Baldauf Jr. and Paulin G. Djité
- The international standing of the German language / Ulrich Ammon
- Arabic and the new technologies / Foued Laroussi
- Russian in the modern world / Vida IO. Mikhalchenko and Yulia Trushkova
- Geolinguistics, geopolitics, geostrategy : the case of French / Robert Chadenson
- Towards a scientific geostrategy for English / Grant D. McConnell
- On Brazilian Portuguese in Latin American integration / Maria da Graça Krieger
- The search for a global linguistic strategy / Humphrey Tonkin.