Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language: 112 - Brossura

Ager, D. E.

 
9781853594427: Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language: 112

Sinossi

This book is about the relationship between language and the society that uses it. It specifically aims to discover what drives the French to concentrate so much on language, on what characterises their approach, and on the explanations for the policies governments pursue. It concludes that three motives have been and are important: insecurity, identity and image creation. Insecurity — the fear of a possible break-up of the French state from attacks on it — has coloured policy for the regional languages, the fight against Franglais, and policy, often not openly stated, towards certain social categories — the young, women, immigrants, the poor. The desire to affirm French identity and uniqueness is at the origin of policies to reinforce the status of the French language in the public domain. The zeal of the state in spreading French abroad, and a more recent discovery of the importance of language diversity in the world, can be traced to a mixture of altruism and imperialism: a desire to benefit mankind tempered with an intention to ensure the maintenance of France's world role.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dennis Ager is Professor of Modern Languages in the School of Languages and European Studies at Aston University. He is interested in the mutual effect of language and societies, particularly French society. This interest is reflected in work both on the nature of society, particularly on the characteristics of state-minority relations, and on the nature of language, with particular interest in language variety. His most recent books are Francophonie in the 1990s. Problems and Opportunities (Multilingual Matters, 1996), Language Policy in Britain and France: the Processes of Policy (Cassell, 1996) and Language, Community and the State (Intellect, 1997).

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9781853594434: Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language

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ISBN 10:  1853594431 ISBN 13:  9781853594434
Casa editrice: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 1999
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