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Contesting Public Monolingualism and Diglossia: Rethinking Political Theory and Language Policy for a Multilingual World
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May, Stephen – Language Policy, 2014
In many language policy and political theory discussions, there is an overt skepticism, and at times outright hostility, towards the ongoing maintenance of private and, especially, public multilingualism, particularly when these include/incorporate the languages of linguistic minorities. For linguistic minority individuals, ongoing multilingualism…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance, Social Mobility