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This book proposes an integrated framework for investigating the ethics of language policy in liberal democracies in a global era.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Language policy and planning in Quebec: a brief overview; 3. In defence of the vernacular: French in the age of global English; 4. Linguistic citizenship: identity, integration and interculturalism; 5. Pluricentric linguistic justice in Quebec: beyond the monocentric ideology; 6. Normative language policy in a complex world.
About the author
Leigh Oakes is Reader in French and Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on language policy and planning, language and national identity, and language attitudes and ideologies, especially in the contexts of Quebec, France and Sweden.Yael Peled is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Language and Health at the Institute for Health and Social Policy and Faculty of Law at McGill University, Canada. Her research interests focus on the moral and political philosophy of language and the phenomenon of interdisciplinarity in academic research.
Summary
What moral principles justify state interventions in language endangerment? How fair are the generally preferred 'hands off' principles in an increasingly English-dominated world? How ethical are community-led language maintenance initiatives? These are all important current questions relating to language policy and are the subject of this pioneering new study.
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'Effective language policy must unite the findings of disinterested empirical research with the more general and cross-contextual insights of political philosophers. This book represents one of the first sustained attempts at finding common and complementary ground here.' John Edwards, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
