Linguistic Minorities in Multilingual Settings: Implications for Language Policies

by Christina Bratt Paulston

The 19th-century European notion of the one people-one language nation as the ideal state has been a very pervasive influence in spite of the fact that most countries in the world today are multilingual, that is they contain ethnic groups in contact and not infrequently in competition. Such thinking has held implications for the setting of language policies, from hanging a wooden clog around the neck of a child heard speaking Occitan in Southern France...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556195400
• ISBN13: 9781556195402
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 136 Pages