LINGUIST List 14.618

Mon Mar 3 2003

Books: Sociolinguistics:Maurais, Morris (eds)

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

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1. jreid, Languages in a Globalising World: Maurais, Morris (eds)

Title: Languages in a Globalising World
			
Publication Year: 2003
			
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 
 http://www.cup.org		 
			
Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/linguistics
			
 
Editor: Jacques Maurais, Office québécois de langue francaise,
Québec, Québec, Canada
Editor: Michael A. Morris, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 
				

Hardback: ISBN: 0521821738, Pages: 361, Price: $65.00
Comment: 
Paperback: ISBN: 0521533546, Pages: 361, Price: $24.00

			
Abstract:

The fate of languages has been closely linked to political power
relationships throughout human history. Political shifts in the
international system today continue to affect linguistic patterns,
still in a state of flux following the end of the Cold War. This book
considers the effects of present-day trends in global politics on the
relative status of languages, and the directions in which the
linguistic hierarchy might develop in the future. It appeals to
researchers and students of sociolinguistics and language planning as
well as of international relations.

Contributors:

Jacques Maurais, Michael A. Morris, Mark Fettes, Douglas A. Kibbee,
Jean Laponce, William F. Mackey, Ferenc Fodor, Sandrine Peluau, Claude
Truchot, Enrique Hamel, Michael Morris, Birgit N. Schlyter, Stefan
Kaiser, Richard B. Baldauf Jr., Paulin G. Djité, Ulrich Ammon, Foued
Laroussi, World, Vida Io. Mikhalchenko Trushkova, Yulia Trushkova,
Robert Chaudenson, Grant McConnell, Maria da Graca Krieger, Humphrey
Tonkin.

Lingfield(s): Sociolinguistics
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)