Ideology and Image: Britain and Language: 124 (Multilingual Matters) - Softcover

Ager, Dennis E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853596590 ISBN 13: 9781853596599

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2003

Synopsis

This 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.

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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.

About the Author:

Dennis Ager is is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages at Aston University, UK. His interests lie in language behaviour at the interface between language and society. He is the author of Sociolinguistics and Contemporary French (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and of Language, Community and the State (Intellect, 1997). His most recent books on language policy are Identity, Insecurity and Image. France and Language (Multilingual Matters, No 112) (Multilingual Matters, 1999) and Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy (Multilingual Matters, No 119) (Multilingual Matters, 2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1853596590
• ISBN 13: 9781853596599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224