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Taking off from the apt epigram that "... language, after all, is a purely historical phenomenon", these sociolinguistic analyses present debates over how language ideologies are formed, articulated, and entextualized. The editor's opening and final essays entitled "the debate is open" and "the debate is closed" bookend ten debates relating to language, identity, and political power: French-into-Corsican translations, dialect in Switzerland, Catalan vs. Spanish in Barcelona since the 1992 Olympics, Canada's linguistic cultures, bilingual education in the US, Ebonics, Singapore's "Speak Mandarin' campaign, the revival status of Israeli Hebrew, and European tongues and literary genres in postcolonial Africa.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Philosophy of language

• Full title: Language Ideological Debates
• Author: Jan Blommaert
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 459
• EAN: 9783110163506
• ISBN: 3110163500
• ID: 09504831
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Weight: 918 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 155 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. September 1999

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