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In one of his works, Barthes wrote; "If I was a writer and I was
dead, I would like that my life be reduced through the care of a
friendly and confident biographer, to some details [...] whose
distinction and mobility could be translated out of any
destiny."And Calvet has made it.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Non-linguistic conflicts - economic, religious, territorial - are
often projected on to language differences, and may be played out
in the language policies of governments and other holders of power.
Jean-Louis Calvet deals broadly, in a non-technical and
introductory style, with this interaction of language issues and
political process. He examines the fundamental problems arising
from language contact, multilingualism, and the conflicts caused by
inequalities symbolized in various patterns of language use. The
author draws extensively on his own research and uses numerous case
studies to illustrate the power-political dimensions of language
policies from many parts of the world, such as Africa, China, South
America, the former Soviet Union, and Europe. He cites the former
Soviet Union as a prime example of an attempt to impose, for
ideological reasons, a supra-national vehicular language, in order
to supersede the languages of regional nationalism. Professor
Calvet offers no simple solutions to the `war of languages' but
urges all those involved in language intervention - from the
professional `language planners' to school teachers - to combine
the need to promote majority languages with respect for the
diversity of local languages and language varieties.
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