Blessings of Babel : bilingualism and language planning : problems and pleasures / by Einar Haugen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haugen, Einar, 1906-1994.

Series:

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism.

Sociolinguistics.

Language planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Blessings of Babel".

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

Chapter 1. Babel

Chapter 2. On Growing Up Bilingual

Chapter 3. Bilingual Competence

Chapter 4. The Ethnic Imperative

Chapter 5. An Ecological Model

Chapter 6. The Communicative Norm

Chapter 7. Social Integration

Chapter 8. Sociolinguistics: A Challenge

Chapter 9. Pluralism: A National Goal?

Chapter 10. Language Planning

Chapter 11. Implementation

Chapter 12. Semicommunication

Chapter 13. Interlanguage

Chapter 14. English: Modernization

Chapter 15. Faroese: Ecology

Chapter 16. Icelandic: Pronominal Address

Chapter 17. Norwegian: Forms of Address

Chapter 18. Norwegian: Sexism

Chapter 19. Norwegian: A Frontier

Chapter 20. Ethnicity: Swedes and Norwegians

Chapter 21. Relativity

Chapter 22. Bilingual Judgments

Chapter 23. Language Choice

Bibliography

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 8, 2013).

ISBN:

9783110862966

3110862964

OCLC:

922948150