Language management /
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| Author / Creator: | Spolsky, Bernard. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xi, 308 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7691818 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Towards a theory of language management
- 2. Managing language in the family
- Managing speech and linguistic communities
- The individual and "simple management"
- Managing language in the family
- Parents or peers?
- Family as target
- Methods of managing the home language ecology
- Home language managers
- Ideological influences on the home
- A model of home language choice
- First modification of the theory
- 3. Religious language policy
- Introduction
- Jewish language policy
- Language management in Christianity
- Islamic language management
- Other religious language management
- Religion in the theory of language management
- 4. Language management in the workplace: managing business language
- Domains and levels of language management
- Workplace language rules
- Global business
- Language management at sea and in the air
- Advertising and signs
- The workplace in a theory of language management
- 5. Managing public linguistic space
- Public linguistic space
- Public verbal signs
- Early studies of public signage
- Preliminary questions
- The effect of advertising on the paysage linguistique
- Public signs in a theory of language management
- Visual space for private use
- Newspapers and magazines
- Visual space: books
- From sign to sound
- Media: radio and television
- Minority access to radio and television
- Media: telephones, cell phones, and call centers
- Media: the Internet and e-mail
- Cultivating public language
- Media in a theory of language management
- 6. Language policy in schools
- Participants
- Pupils
- Teachers
- Other participants
- Where are the managers?
- The self-managed school
- The locally managed school
- Externally managed schools
- Examination boards as language managers
- Patterns
- Language of instruction
- Educational evidence
- Developed languages
- Ideological arguments
- Dividing language functions
- Teaching additional languages
- Teaching foreign languages
- The results of language education policy
- The tools of language management in schools
- Teachers as a tool of language management
- Managing the admission of students
- Punishment as language management
- Schooling in a theory of language management
- 7. Managing language in legal and health institutions
- Safety and health
- The law courts
- Civil rights
- The police
- The health institutions
- The legal and health domains in the model
- 8. Managing military language
- Communication needs in the military
- The Roman army and the sergeant's problem
- The sergeant's problem in other armies
- Canada: making an army bilingual
- US military language management in two world wars
- US defense language policy in an age of global war
- The military domain in a theory of language management
- 9. Local, regional, and national governments managing languages
- Introduction
- The organization of this chapter
- The pressure of a multilingual nation
- Language management at the constitutional level
- Center vs. periphery
- The territorial solution
- The new territorialism: regional autonomy and devolution
- Going further: the breakup of nation-states
- Central government regulation of languages
- Spelling and language reform
- Local government
- Why is national policy so difficult?
- Pressures for national monolingualism and multilingualism
- 10. Influencing language management: language activist groups
- Entr'acte: the model to-date
- Hebrew revitalization as a grassroots movement
- Nationalist language activism
- The regeneration of Māori
- Language activism in Australia
- Language activism in the United States
- The volunteer stage
- Community language activism: indigenous and immigrant minorities
- Some other cases of indigenous schooling
- Salvaging indigenous endangered languages
- Language activism in the theory of language management
- 11. Managing languages at the supranational level
- The supranational level or domain
- Monolingual supranational organizations: language diffusion management
- Internal policy at the supragovermmental level
- League of Nations and United Nations
- Europe and the European Community: internal language policy
- Influence of international organizations on national foreign language teaching policy
- Human and civil rights and the role of supranational organizations
- Parenthetically, who has "language rights"?
- International organizations on language rights
- The European Community and language rights
- Supranational organizations in a theory of language management
- 12. Language managers, language management agencies and academies, and their work
- Agents and agency
- Managers enforcing status
- Agencies that are not specifically linguistic in scope
- Immigration and citizenship
- Specialized language agencies
- Post-Independence India
- Cultivating languages
- Academies
- Terminology committees
- Nomenclature and place names
- Language editors
- Managers of language acquisition
- Internally (language education)
- Externally (language diffusion)
- Language services
- First aid in language management
- Translation services
- Interpreters
- Language agencies and services in the theoretical model
- 13. A theory of language management: postscript or prolegomena
- Introduction
- Simple language management: the accommodating individual
- Organized language management: the family domain
- The religious domain
- The workplace
- Public linguistic space
- The school domain
- Courts, hospitals, and police stations
- Military language management
- Governments managing language
- Activism and pursuit of minority rights
- Beyond the nation-state: organizations and rights
- Agencies for language management
- What sort of theory do we have?
- References
- Index