Hellinger Marlis, Pauwels Anne. Handbook of Language and Communication: Diversity and Change

Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. — xx, 786 pages. — (Handbooks of Applied Linguistics). — ISBN: 978-3-11-018217-0By looking closely at the multilingual democracies of India, France and the USA, Harold F. Schiffman examines how language policy is primarily a social construct based on belief systems, attitudes and myths.Linguistic Culture and Language Policy exposes language policy as culture-specific, helping us to understand why language policies evolve the way they do; why they work, or not; and how people's lives are affected by them. These issues will be of specific interest to linguists specialising in multilingual/multicultural societies, bilingual educationalists, curriculum planners and teachers.Language minorities and inequality
Regional and immigrant minority languages in Europe
Immigrant language minorities in the United States
Immigrant minorities: Australia
Linguistic diversity: Africa
Linguistic diversity: Asia
Language contact, culture and ecology
Language planning and language change
Models and approaches in language policy and planning
Back from the brink: The revival of endangered languages
Economics and language policy
Language and colonialism
Linguistic imperialism? English as a global language
Language planning and language rights
Language variation and change in institutional contexts
Language and education
Forensic linguistics
Language and religion
Language, war and peace
Language and science
Multilingualism on the Internet
The discourse of linguistic diversity and language change
Attitudes to language and communication
Language, racism, and ethnicity
Language and sexism
Linguistic diversity and language standardization
Borrowing as language conflict
Political correctness and freedom of speech