Motivation in language planning and language policy
This book investigates motives for action on language. Seven seem to recur: identity, insecurity, ideology, image, inequality, integration and instrumentality. The author relates those to wider issues of personal and social motivation, discussing the language strategies, plans and policies of a number of individuals, communities and states.
Print Book, English, cop. 2001
Multilingual Matters, Clevedon [England], cop. 2001
Multilingual matters, 119
210 p. ; 21 cm.
9781853595295, 9781853595288, 1853595292, 1853595284
912181081
Table and FiguresIntroduction1. Identity2. Ideology3. Image4. Insecurity5. Inequality6. Integration and Instrumentality7. Measuring Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy8. The Language Behaviour of Individuals and Communities9. Language Policy: The Language Behaviour of those in Power10. ConclusionReferencesIndex