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| Title | Book Review: Language Ideologies, Policies, and Practices |
| Body | From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2154.html TITLE: Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices EDITORS: Mar-Molinero, Clare; Stevenson, Patrick SUBTITLE: Language and the Future of Europe SERIES: Language and Globalization PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan YEAR: 2006 Zuzana Tomková, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago The book is one of the first titles in the series on Language and Globalization. It is a volume of several papers presented in July 2004 at a conference by the same title as the book itself. As such, it includes a wide variety of topics and perspectives on language ideological issues, language policy and practices in Europe, as well as other areas related to and influenced by Europe. The book's editors open with an introductory chapter, which is then followed by five papers on the theoretical issues of the European legacy (Part I) and ten papers involving case studies of new developments in language and social change in Europe (Part II). In the words of the editors, ''It [the book] therefore seeks to strike a balance between the theoretical, the descriptive and the analytical, and the various chapters represent a wide range of theoretical influences, draw on different types of data (from official policy papers through internet guestbooks to transcripts of spoken interaction) and relate both to general issues involving language in an era of globalization and to particular case-studies in all parts of Europe. In these ways the book aims to provide a coherent discussion of the diversity and complexity of language questions that characterize the current social and political development of Europe. (...) [I]t aims to make a contribution (...) to the project of developing a 'sociolinguistics of globalization''' (9-10). Read the complete review at http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2154.html . |
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