Dominant Languages: Language and Hierarchy in Britain and France - Brossura

Grillo, Ralph

 
9780521108614: Dominant Languages: Language and Hierarchy in Britain and France

Sinossi

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the relations between power and language.

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Descrizione del libro

Through a detailed and systematic comparison of Britain and France, Ralph Grillo examines the concept of language dominance, and the causes and consequences of linguistic hierarchy.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. Introduction: the politics of communicative practice; 2. The view from the centre: France; 3. And England; 4. A view from the periphery - Occitanie; 5. The politics of language in Wales, Ireland and Scotland; 6. Immigrants and language: the 'Mother Tongue'; 7. Immigrants and language: the issue of competence; 8. Language and social differentiation; 9. Barbarous tongues: the hierarchical ordering of difference; 10. Language, class, power, education; 11. Authoritative discourse; Bibliography; Index.

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9780521365406: Dominant Languages: Language and Hierarchy in Britain and France

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521365406 ISBN 13:  9780521365406
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1989
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