Table of Contents

Introduction 1.Language Communities 2.Language Attitudes 3.Planning and Policy: from 880 - 1950s 4.Non-political Language Planning 5.Language Rights 6.Language as a Resources for Citizens 7.Language as a Resources for the State 8.Language as a Political Problem 9.British language Policy and Planning in Perspective

About the Author

Dennis Ager is is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages at Aston University, UK. His interests lie in language behaviour at the interface between language and society. He is the author of Sociolinguistics and Contemporary French (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and of Language, Community and the State (Intellect, 1997). His most recent books on language policy are Identity, Insecurity and Image. France and Language (Multilingual Matters, No 112) (Multilingual Matters, 1999) and Motivation in Language Planning and Language Policy (Multilingual Matters, No 119) (Multilingual Matters, 2001).

Reviews

"A very substantial new angle on Language Policy and Planning, something which is much needed in what I consider a poorly theorised field. I very much enjoyed reading it. I loved the wide scope and really appreciated the connection to history, politics and non-language focussed social action" Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, The National Languages and Literacy Insitute of Australia. "I read this book with enormous pleasure and interest. It should prove an invaluable resource for any scholar concerned with language politics in Britain - or indeed anyone working professionally with English or other languages in use in Britain. It brings together in a very accessible and readable way a huge array of facts and figures on language issues and provides a very coherent picture of the status of languages in contemporary Britain" Tom Bloor, Aston University, Birmingham.