Engages with language policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. This volume examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio-politics.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 21 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 1847064221
ISBN 13: 9781847064226