Rapport De La Commission Denquete Sur La Situation De La Langue Francaise Et Sur Les Droits Linguistiques Au Quebec Livre Ii Les Droits Linguistiques

Author : Leigh Oakes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108509533
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Normative Language Policy written by Leigh Oakes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language politics in the new global era presents policymakers with significant ethical challenges. How should the reality of English as a global language influence the normative considerations underpinning national language policies? What moral arguments justify the imposition of national languages in an era of increased immigration and ethnolinguistic diversity? What role is there for non-dominant varieties in a globalised world? Building on the emerging notion of 'normative language policy', this book proposes an integrated framework for the study of such questions, combining recent normative work on language in political theory and philosophy with empirically-derived insight from the fields of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. The case of Quebec forms the backdrop of the study, providing a particularly illuminating setting for investigating the common moral challenges that face contemporary polities seeking to maintain distinct linguistic identities, in an irreducibly diverse world increasingly dominated by English as a global lingua franca.