Linguistic Culture and Language Policy

<p>By looking closely at the multilingual democracies of India France and the USA Harold F. Schiffman examines how language policy is primarily a social construct based on belief systems attitudes and myths.<br><em>Linguistic Culture and Language Policy</em> exposes language policy as culture-specific helping us to understand why language policies evolve the way they do; why they work or not; and how people's lives are affected by them. These issues will be of specific interest to linguists specialising in multilingual/multicultural societies bilingual educationalists curriculum planners and teachers.</p>