Languages in a globalising world / editors Jacques Maurais and Michael A. Morris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maurais, Jacques, editor.

Morris, Michael A., editor.

Standardized Title:

Géostratégies des langues. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Political aspects.

Language and languages.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 345 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout human history, the fate of languages has been closely linked to political power relationships. Political shifts in the international system continue to affect linguistic patterns, which today are still in a state of flux following the end of the Cold War. This book considers the effects of present-day trends in global politics on the relative status of languages, and the directions in which the linguistic hierarchy might develop in the future. What are the prospects for the continuing spread of English? Will other traditionally prominent languages such as French and German gain or lose influence? Will languages such as Arabic and Japanese increase in international status? Will minority languages continue to lose ground and disappear? The book assesses these prospects, looking at the major world regions, and with its interdisciplinary approach it will appeal to researchers and students of sociolinguistics and language planning as well as of international relations.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12615-0

1-280-43471-6

0-511-17746-1

0-511-04287-6

0-511-14781-3

0-511-32570-3

0-511-61373-3

0-511-05465-3

OCLC:

475917953