The Defence of French: A Language in Crisis? - Couverture rigide

Adamson, Robin

 
9781853599491: The Defence of French: A Language in Crisis?
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1853599492 ISBN 13 : 9781853599491
Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2007

Synopsis

Why do the French defend their language so passionately? Can a world language like French really be in crisis? By tracing the long history of language defence in France and by examining the multiplicity of official and non-official defensive activities and attitudes, the book aims to answer these and other related questions. It looks at changing government policy, particularly the recent paradoxical shift from monolingualism to plurilingualism, and at what has motivated it. It analyses the work of the powerful government agencies and of the small but very vocal private defensive groups. The importance of the Internet is highlighted both by its extensive use in the research for the book and by an examination of its use by the language defenders. A European context is provided by comparisons with Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Finally, a look at various contemporary problems leads to a thought-provoking prognosis for this most strongly-defended of European languages.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robin Adamson is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, working on contemporary French language. For many years she was Director of the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Dundee, where she worked mainly in the fields of second language acquisition, communicative language teaching and discourse analysis, and also contributed extensively to the new generation of university textbooks such as Le français en faculté. She became an officier in the Ordre des palmes académiques in 1989. Her interest in the defence of French springs from a lifelong passion for the language and the discovery that among her Scottish ancestors are several who died defending France.

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Éditeur
Multilingual Matters
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1853599492
ISBN 13 
9781853599491
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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Personne responsable
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