Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language (Multilingual Matters, 112) - Softcover

Ager, Dennis E

 
9781853594427: Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language (Multilingual Matters, 112)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1853594423 ISBN 13: 9781853594427
Verlag: Multilingual Matters, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

This book is about the relationship between language and the society that uses it. It specifically aims to discover what drives the French to concentrate so much on language, on what characterises their approach, and on the explanations for the policies governments pursue. It concludes that three motives have been and are important: insecurity, identity and image creation. Insecurity — the fear of a possible break-up of the French state from attacks on it — has coloured policy for the regional languages, the fight against Franglais, and policy, often not openly stated, towards certain social categories — the young, women, immigrants, the poor. The desire to affirm French identity and uniqueness is at the origin of policies to reinforce the status of the French language in the public domain. The zeal of the state in spreading French abroad, and a more recent discovery of the importance of language diversity in the world, can be traced to a mixture of altruism and imperialism: a desire to benefit mankind tempered with an intention to ensure the maintenance of France's world role.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dennis Ager is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages at Aston University, UK. His interests lie in the interface between language and society. He is the author of Francophonie in the 1990s: Problems and Opportunities (Multilingual matters, 1996), Language Policy in Britain and France: The Processes of Policy (Cassells, 1996), Language, Community and the State (Intellect, 1997) and Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language (Multilingual matters, 1999).

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Verlag
Multilingual Matters
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1853594423
ISBN 13 
9781853594427
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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