Language as commodity: global structures, local marketplaces
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN :
9781847064233
Date de publication :
21 sept. 2008
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Engages with language policies and positions in relation to the roles and functions these languages adopt. This book examines the 'value' of languages, defined in terms of the power they have in the global marketplace as much as within the complex matrices of the local socio-politics.