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Saulière, Jérôme – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This article looks at France's Loi Toubon, which mandates the use of French in private companies, to illustrate how macro-level language planning reaches a dead end if it fails to consider local contexts and involve micro-level agents. The motivations, limitations and contradictions of France's language policy in relation to companies are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporations, Sociolinguistics, Language Usage