Language Planning and Policy: Ideologies, Ethnicities, and Semiotic Spaces of Power (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527544413)

Language policy is heterogeneous and varies according to its object, levels of intervention, purpose, participants and institutions involved, underlying language ideologies, local contexts, power relations, and historical contexts. This volume offers unique cross-cultural perspectives on language planning and policy in diverse African and Middle Eastern contexts, including South Africa, Bahrain, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Zambia, and Algeria. The African diaspora is also considered, as is the case of Brazil. By bringing together diverse contexts in Africa and the Middle East, this volume encourages a dialogue in the burgeoning scholarship on language policies in different regions of Africa and the Middle East in order to inspect the intersection between language policy discourses and their social, political, and educational functions.

Author: Ashraf Abdelhay
ISBN-10: 1527544419
ISBN-13: 9781527544413
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2020
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.90d