Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era The Struggles for Language Control in the New Order in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Andrews, Ernest (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Language policy.; Russia-Politics and government.; Sociolinguistics.; Linguistic change.; Historical linguistics.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Language Policy and Planning.; Russian and Post-Soviet Politics.; Language Change.; Language History.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.

This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the attempts of language experts and governments to control language use and development in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China through planned activities generally known as language planning or language policy. The ten case studies presented here examine l...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Ernest Andrews
• Chapter 1: Language Planning: Theoretical Background; Ernest Andrews
• Chapter 2: Language Planning in China: Unity, Diversity, and Social Control; Fengyuan Ji
• Chapter 3: Language Policy in Russia: Language, Identity and Nationality; Joan Chevalier
• Chapter 4: Language Policy and Power Politics in Post-Soviet Tatarstan; Teresa Wigglesworth-Baker
• Chapter 5: Language Policy and Hegemony in the Central Asian Republics Ayse Dietrich
• Chapter 6: Language Policy in Independent Ukraine: A Battle for National and Linguistic Empowerment; Vladislava Reznik
• Chapter 7: Lithuanian Language Planning: A Battle for Language and for Power; Loreta Vaicekauskienė and Nerijus Sepetis
• Chapter 8: Language Planning in Latvia as a Struggle for National Sovereignty; Andrejs Veisbergs
• Chapter 9: The Polish Language Act: Legislating Language in a Complicated Linguistic-Political Landscape; Magda Stroinska and Ernest Andrews
• Chapter 10: Language Planning in Slovakia: Nation-Building in the Context of European Integration; Marián Sloboda, Lucia Molnár Satinská and Mira Nábělková
• Chapter 11: Forms of Language Planning and Policy in the Czech Republic; Hana Srpova.