The Reconquest of Montreal: Language Policy and Social Change in a Bilingual City

by Marc V. Levine

Book Overview

Although Montreal has been a bilingual city since 1760 and demographically dominated by French-speakers for well over a century and a quarter, it was not until the late 1960s that full-fledged challenges to the city's English character emerged. Since then. two decades of agitation over la question linguistique as well as the enactment of three language laws have altered the places of French and English in Montreal's schools, public administration,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877227039
• ISBN13: 9780877227038
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.