Monographs and Articles on Language Spread
Author: MULJACIC-Z.
Title: Language Spread and Social Change. Dynamics and Measure
- French, English, by L. Laforge, G.D. Mcconnell.
Source: ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE. Vol. 111, no. 4, 1995,
p.606-608.
Language: Italian.
ISSN: 0049-8661.
Publisher: TUBINGEN : MAX NIEMEYER VERLAG.
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Author: Rasmus Rask Colloquium (2nd : 1994 Odense University).
Title: The origins and development of emigrant languages : prodeedings
from the Second Rasmus Rask Colloquium, Odense University,
November 1994 / edited by Hans F. Nielsen and Lene Schosler.
Pub. Info.: Odense : Odense University Press, 1996.
Notes: English and French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Immigrants -- Language -- Congresses.
Other Author: Nielsen, Hans Frede, 1943-.
Schosler, Lene, 1946-.
P40.5.L37 R37 1994
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Author: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and
Linguistics (1987 : Washington D.C.).
Title: Language spread and language policy : issues, implications, and
case studies / Peter H. Lowenberg, editor.
Pub. Info.: Washington : Georgetown University Press, c1988.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Other Author: Lowenberg, Peter H.
P125 .G87 1988
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Author: Kachru, Braj B.
Title: The Power and Politics of English.
Year: 1986
Language: English
Pub. Type: Journal article; Review literature; Project description
Source: World Englishes; v5 n2-3 p121-40 Win 1986
Abstract: Presents issues related to power and politics of the English
language specifically in relation to the unprecedented global
spread of the language. Several linguistic and nonlinguistic
perspectives used to conceptualize the relationship between
language and power are considered. (Author/CB)
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Author: Quirk, Randolph
Title: The Question of Standard in the International Use of English.
Year: 1991
Language: English
Note: 13p.; In: Tickoo, Makhan L., Ed. Languages & Standards: Issues,
Attitudes, Case Studies; see FL 019 461.
Pages: 13; 1
Abstract: This paper presents three models on "language spread,"
or three ways in which human language may be spread. These
models include: (1) the demographic spread, in which
language spread is caused and accompanied by population
spread; (2) the econocultural model, exemplified by the spread
of English in the world of multinational business; and (3) the
imperial model, which reflects political domination with only
sufficient population movement to sustain an administrative
system and power structure. It is concluded that the
remarkable degree of the current spread of English in the world
can be attributed to the econocultural model, and, that, for
countries affected by the imperial model, it is likely that a
long-term demand for English will be related equally to
econocultural factors, with consequences accordingly for the
standards to be observed. (JL)
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Author: Alatis, James E., Ed.; Tucker, G. Richard, Ed.
Title: Language in Public Life. Georgetown University Round Table on
Languages and Linguistics (Washington, D.C., 1979).
Author Affil.: Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C. School of Languages and
Linguistics.
Year: 1979
Language: English; French
Abstract: The proceedings of the Georgetown Round Table on language and
public life are divided into four sections dealing with: (1)
language in public life and international affairs, (2)
language spread and language policy, (3) language and
the professions, and (4) the language of public persuasion. The
articles in these sections treat the following points: the
President's Commission on Foreign Languages and International
Studies; U.S. international English language policy; language
attitudes, planning and policy; language choice and human
rights; communication in medical practice; language and
advertising, education, the judicial system, the neurosciences,
and the deaf experience; and language assessment, and the
languages of persuasion in the media. An appendix presents an
article in French by A. Zachariev on language planning in
education in multilingual countries. (AMH)
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Author: Lieberson, Stanley
Title: Language Diversity and Language Contact.
Year: 1981
Language: English
Abstract: The essays in this volume are divided into four sections: (1)
"Ethnic Diversity and National Language," (2) "Bilingualism:
Its Causes and Consequences," (3) "Models and Methods," and (4)
"Language Spread: A New Direction," The first part deals
with the social conditions that influence acquisition of a
second language, and language diversity on the national and
regional level. In addition to a discussion of the forces that
determine mother-tongue shift, part two reports on a
demographic analysis of bilingualism and linguistic and ethnic
segregation in Montreal, and language shift in the United
States and Nairobi. The third part provides formal models for
measuring the role language plays in binding and separating the
regions of a nation, and discusses the linkage between native
language diversity and national development. The essay in part
four offers some basic propositions on forces affecting
language spread.
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