Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy
Author: Dennis E Ager
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- Ebook(PDF)
- ISBN:
- 9781853595301
- Published:
- 31 Jan 2001
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- Multilingual Matters
- Publisher:
- Multilingual Matters
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Summary
The aim of this book is to investigate motives for action on language. Seven seem to recur: identity, insecurity, ideology, image, inequality, integration and instrumentality. The author relates those to wider issues of personal and social motivation, discussing the language strategies, plans and policies of a number of individuals, communities and states.
Author Biography:
Dennis Ager is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages at Aston University, UK. His interests lie in the interface between language and society. He is the author of Francophonie in the 1990s: Problems and Opportunities (Multilingual matters, 1996), Language Policy in Britain and France: The Processes of Policy (Cassells, 1996), Language, Community and the State (Intellect, 1997) and Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language (Multilingual matters, 1999).
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