Linguistic Culture and Language Policy

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Linguistic Culture and Language Policy is written by Harold Schiffman and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1134670001 (ISBN 10) and 9781134670000 (ISBN 13).

By looking closely at the multilingual democracies of India, France and the USA, Harold F. Schiffman examines how language policy is primarily a social construct based on belief systems, attitudes and myths. Linguistic Culture and Language Policy exposes language policy as culture-specific, helping us to understand why language policies evolve the way they do; why they work, or not; and how people's lives are affected by them. These issues will be of specific interest to linguists specialising in multilingual/multicultural societies, bilingual educationalists, curriculum planners and teachers.