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Keywords
- Canada
- culture
- English
- French
- history
- history of literature
- language
- language policy
- multilingualism
- nature
- planning
- policy
- social change
- society
- understanding
About this book
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between groups is linked to modifications in the status of their language. The Quebec language laws provide a case in point of the relation between social change and language planning. This comprehensive analysis of the Quebec language issue exposes the material and symbolic causes of these legislative measures and assesses their effects. This detailed appraisal also provides answers to more general questions of the nature of language laws and the conditions for their legitimacy.
About the authors
MARC CHEVRIER Editor of the journal and encyclopaedia L'Agora C.MICHAEL MACMILLAN Professor of Political Studies, Mount Saint University, Halifax JEAN-PHILIPPE WARREN Assistant Professor of Sociology at Concordia University in Montreal COLIN H.WILLIAMS Research Professor in the Department of Welsh, Cardiff University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws
Book Subtitle: Understanding the Quebec Question
Editors: P. Larrivée
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-96899-4Published: 17 December 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-66488-7Published: 17 December 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 204