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Languages in a globalising world /

Languages in a globalising world / edited by Jacques Maurais and Michael A. Morris. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2003. - xv, 345 p. ; 24 cm.

"Originally published in French as 'Géostratégies des langues' in Terminogramme by Les Publications de Québec 2001" -- t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Towards a new global linguistic order? / Jacques Maurais --
The geostrategies of interlingualism / Mark Fettes --
Language policy and linguistic theory / Douglas A. Kibbee --
Babel and the market : geostrategies for minority languages / Jean Laponce --
Forecasting the fate of languages / William F. Mackey --
Language geostrategy in eastern and central Europe : assessment and perspectives / Ferenc Fodor and Sandrine Peluau --
Languages and supranationality in Europe : the linguistic influence of the European Union / Claude Truchot --
Regional blocs as a barrier against English hegemony? The language policy of Mercosur in South America / Rainer Enrique Hamel --
Effects of North American integration on linguistic diversity / Michael A. Morris --
Sociolinguistic changes in transformed Central Asian societies / Birgit N. Schlyter --
Language and script in Japan and other East Asian countries : between insularity and technology / Stefan Kaiser --
Sub-Saharan Africa / Roland J.-L. Breton --
Australasia and the South Pacific / Richard B. Baldauf Jr. and Paulin G. Djité --
The international standing of the German language / Ulrich Ammon --
Arabic and the new technologies / Foued Laroussi --
Russian in the modern world / Vida IO. Mikhalchenko and Yulia Trushkova --
Geolinguistics, geopolitics, geostrategy : the case of French / Robert Chadenson --
Towards a scientific geostrategy for English / Grant D. McConnell --
On Brazilian Portuguese in Latin American integration / Maria da Graça Krieger --
The search for a global linguistic strategy / Humphrey Tonkin. TOC



0521821738 (hb.) 9780521821735 0521533546 (pb.) 0511042876 9780511042874


Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages--Political aspects.

P119.3 / .G46513 2003

401.41 / LAN 2003