Schiffman, Harold F. <br/><br/>
Linguistic culture and language policy  [Book] / 
Harold F. Schiffman. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  1998, ♭1996. 
 - xii, 351 pages :  illustrations ;  21 cm. 
 - Politics of language .
<br/><br/> First published in paperback 1998. Transferred to digital printing 2004. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415184061 (paperback) 9780415184069 (paperback) 0415128757 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language policy.<br/>Language and culture.<br/>Mathematical statistics--Textbooks.<br/>R (Computer program language)
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.449