Language Planning and Policy in the Pacific by Robert B. Kaplan Richard B. Baldauf
Brand: Channel View Publications Ltd
Product Description
This volume covers the language situation in Fiji The Philippines and Vanuatu explaining the linguistic diversity the historical and political contexts and the current language situation including languageineducation planning the role of the media the role of religion and the roles of nonindigenous languages. The authors are indigenous andor have been participants in the language planning context. Fiji and Vanuatu are not well represented in the international language policyplanning literature while the section on the Philippines draws together the published literature in this area. The purpose of the volumes in this series is to present uptodate information on polities that are not wellknown to researchers in the field. A longer range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world.
Condition : New
Author : Robert B. Kaplan Richard B. Baldauf
Weight : 696
Publisher : Channel View Publications Ltd
Language : English
EAN : 9781853599217
ISBN10 : 1853599212
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : NA
Place of Publication : United Kingdom
Pagination : 248
Dimensions : 248 X 168 X 19