Description
Book SynopsisThis text describes and evaluates recent language planning and policy in the British Isles. Issues including minority language rights, language resources for the state and the citizen, and problems such as the standard English battle and policy for Welsh and Gaelic are analysed against the background of detailed study of contemporary British society and politics.
Trade Review"A very substantial new angle on Language Policy and Planning, something which is much needed in what I consider a poorly theorised field. I very much enjoyed reading it. I loved the wide scope and really appreciated the connection to history, politics and non-language focussed social action" Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, The National Languages and Literacy Insitute of Australia. "I read this book with enormous pleasure and interest. It should prove an invaluable resource for any scholar concerned with language politics in Britain - or indeed anyone working professionally with English or other languages in use in Britain. It brings together in a very accessible and readable way a huge array of facts and figures on language issues and provides a very coherent picture of the status of languages in contemporary Britain" Tom Bloor, Aston University, Birmingham.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
Tables
Figures
Introduction
1. Language Communities
2. Language Attitudes
3. Planning and Policy: From 880 to the 1950s
4. Non-political Language Planning
5. Language Rights
6. Language as a Resource for Citizens
7. Language as a Resource for the State
8. Language as a Political Problem
9. British Language Policy and Planning in Perspective
Appendix
References
Index
