Language and Modern Society
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In this book, the leading expert on Geolinguistics in the United States, Prof. L.R.N. Ashley, offers a series of representative essays on aspects of language and society. It offers important insights into how various languages in contact, and in competition, shape cultures and make history.
- ISBN : 1-84290-010-09 (Paperback)
- Total Pages : 318
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Contents:
1. The American Society of Geolinguistics: The first twenty years,
2. Geolinguistics and the Breakup of Nations,
3. Canada's Amerindians: Democracy, demography and the geolinguistics of ethnicity,
4. Language and public education,
5. South Florida: No longer a part of the United States of America,
6. the geolinguistics and geopolitics of nationhood and immigration,
7. The fetishism of France and other language policies,
8. Basic English as an International language,
9. "Put on a happy face" - the effect of computer technology on communication in the World today,
10. " I only know what I read in the papers": Geolinguistic aspects of immigration and foreign language especially in the popular press,
11. The War of the Words,
12. Welsh in Wales: Language, culture and politics,
13. Hasta La Vista, Baby!: Spanish and the future of the United States,
14. Death of the Languages
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