Description
Book SynopsisThis book is intended to make up-to-date information and opinion about Francophonie accessible to English-speaking readers, and to assess how well the international movement of French-speaking nations is placed to face the future. 'Francophonie' can be defined in three ways: as the development and distribution of the French language; as an international movement of nearly fifty countries and regions, similar to, but showing major differences from the Commonwealth; and as a set of cultural and political values which can be shared by other nations for which French is not the only or the main means of communication. Students of French, of international relations, of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, of politics and economics, and those interested in questions of cultural and linguistic identity will find the book invaluable as a source of reference, as an assessment of the effectiveness of the Francophone approach to world problems, and as an evaluation of France's own role in Europe and Africa.
Table of ContentsForeword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Contemporary Francophonie
1. The Development of Francophonie
2. The Distribution of Contemporary Francophonie
Part Two: Problems of Contemporary Francophonie
3. Problems for French: Language, Culture and Identity
4. The Problem of English and Other Languages
5. The Last Colonies? The DOM-TOM
6. The Economics of Francophonie
7. The Organisation of Francophonie
Part Three: Opportunities for Francophonie
8. Africa
9. Asia and the Pacific
10. Europe
Conclusions
