Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws: Understanding the Quebec Question

ISBN-13: 9781349664887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 204 str.

Alice Bloch; Pierre Larrivee; P. Larrivee

Opis

In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; The Quebec language laws provide a case in point of the relation between social change and language planning.

Spis treści

Notes On Contributors Introduction Language Policy and Planning Issues in Multicultural Societies; C.Williams The History of Quebec in the Perspective of the French Language; J-P.Warren Federal Language Policy in Canada and the Quebec Challenge; C.M. MacMillan A Language Policy for a Language in Exile; M.Chevrier Anglophones and Allophones in Quebec; P.Larrivée A Final Note on Culture, Quebec Native Languages and the Quebec Question; P. Larrivée

O autorze

MARC CHEVRIER Editor of the journal and encyclopaedia L'Agora C.MICHAEL MACMILLAN Professor of Political Studies, Mount Saint University, Halifax JEAN-PHILIPPE WARREN Assistant Professor of Sociology at Concordia University in Montreal COLIN H.WILLIAMS Research Professor in the Department of Welsh, Cardiff University.