Date: 12-Jun-2007 From: Kathryn King <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Language Planning and Policy in Latin America: Baldauf, Kaplan (Eds)
Title: Language Planning and Policy in Latin America, Vol. 1
Subtitle: Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay
Series Title: Language Planning and Policy
Published: 2007
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Editor: Richard B Baldauf
Editor: Robert B Kaplan
Hardback: ISBN: Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 39.95
Hardback: ISBN: Pages: 312 Price: U.S. $ 79.95
Abstract:
This volume covers the language situation in Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay, 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.