A Language Policy for the European Community: Prospects and QuandariesFlorian Coulmas CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. |
Contents
Factors of constraints and freedom in setting a language policy | 45 |
Language conflicts in multilingual Europe prospects for 1993 | 59 |
X | 73 |
Learning | 75 |
Language politics and the new European identity | 103 |
Prolegomena to a language policy | 121 |
Multilingualism in European Community meetings | 139 |
The impact of European Community rules on linguistic policies | 163 |
Reflections about minority languages in the European Community | 179 |
Linguistic integration and identity the situation of migrant | 195 |
The status of German and other languages in | 241 |
National and international dimensions of language policy when | 255 |
The case of Greece | 279 |
Contributing authors | 301 |
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