Date: 31-Oct-2006 From: Kathryn King <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific, Volume 1: Baldauf, Kaplan (Eds)
Title: Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific, Volume 1
Subtitle: Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu
Series Title: Language Planning and Policy
Published: 2006
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Editor: Richard B. Baldauf
Editor: Robert B. Kaplan
Hardback: ISBN: 1853599212 Pages: 248 Price: U.S. $ 69.95
Hardback: ISBN: 1853599212 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 34.95
Hardback: ISBN: 1853599212 Pages: 248 Price: Canada $ 74.95
Abstract:
This volume covers the language situation in the Fiji, The Philippines and Vanuatu explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation - including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous and/or have been participants in the language planning context.