Language of Inequality
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Language of Inequality

  1. 426 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Language of Inequality

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Foreword
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. The Language of Imperialism: Unity or Pluralism?
  6. SECTION ONE: ORIGINS AND PATTERNS OF DIVERSITY
  7. LANGUAGE CONTACT AND THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY
  8. Patterns of Sociolinguistic Inequality in Mesoamerica
  9. The Fate of Spanish in the United States: The Puerto Rican Experience
  10. The Language of Power in Cree Interethnic Communication
  11. PATTERNS OF LANGUAGE CHOICE
  12. Ethnic Relations and Language Use in Montréal
  13. Catalonia: The Dilemma of Language Rights
  14. The Special Relation of Guarani and Spanish in Paraguay
  15. LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN THE COMMUNITY
  16. Vernacular and Standard Swahili as Seen by Members of the Mombasa Swahili Speech Community
  17. Standard and Non-Standard Language Attitudes in a Creole Continuum
  18. PATTERNS OF SHIFT AND MAINTENANCE: A QUESTION OF LIFE AND DEATH
  19. The Ultimate Inequality: Linguistic Genocide
  20. The Imperial Languages of the Andes
  21. Language Maintenance and Language Shift: Some Data from Australia
  22. The Lively Life of a “Dead“ Language (or “Everyone Knows that Yiddish Died Long Ago”)
  23. SECTION TWO: LANGUAGE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
  24. LANGUAGE STANDARDIZATION AND EDUCATIONAL PLANNING: OVERT AND COVERT INFLUENCES
  25. The Social Context of Language Standardization in India
  26. English, Swahili, or Other Languages? The Relationship of Educational Development Goals to Language of Instruction in Kenya and Tanzania
  27. Linguistic Inequality in Hawaii: The Post-Creole Dilemma
  28. The Sociology of Language Learning and Teaching in a Creole Situation
  29. The New Language Policy in Nigeria: Its Problems and Its Chances of Success
  30. CLASSROOM INTERACTION AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY
  31. Bilingual Education in Peru and Bolivia
  32. Indian Children in Anglo Classrooms
  33. Expressing Alienation: Creole in the Classroom
  34. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUNCTIONS OF MULTILINGUALISM
  35. Language and Social Mobility in Singapore
  36. Sociolinguistic Inequality and Language Problems of Linguistic Minorities in India
  37. The Status of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) and Attitudes Towards It
  38. Language and Development in Africa: The Unequal Equation
  39. Diversity in Communication and Languages; Predicament of a Multilingual Nation State: India, A Case Study
  40. List of Contributors