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Language Policy (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics) Book

The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discuss key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology and sociology.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Bernard Spolsky looks at the many debates at the forefront of language policy in this up-to-date introduction. The topics covered include ideas of correctness and bad language; bilingualism and multilingualism; language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages; language choice as a human and civil right; and language education policy. Spolsky develops a theory of modern national language policy and the major forces controlling it and explores questions that arise concerning the recognition of language policies and language management.

  • 0521804612
  • 9780521804615
  • Bernard Spolsky
  • 11 December 2003
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 262
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