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Download full textFasold, Ralph – 1985
A national language is useful as one means of creating social cohesion at the level of the whole country. It is also a symbol of national identity and of a nation's distinction from other countries. Probably no nation will ever be fully satisfied with a language that is a national language in the symbolic sense only, but the symbolic function of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Unity, Language Planning, Language Role
Coulmas, Florian – 1985
The question of what a national language is good for has been asked and answered many times, and the validity of each answer depends on historical circumstances. Many assume that there is a direct relationship between language and nation. Leibniz argued in 1683, at a time when bilingualism was socially stratifying, that nation and language…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Developing Nations, Diachronic Linguistics, Ethnicity
