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Author: Florian Coulmas (Senior Professor in the Institute of East Asian Studies, Senior Professor in the Institute of East Asian Studies, Duisberg-Essen University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 22.20cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780198736523
ISBN 10: 0198736525
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 24 March 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
The writing is elegant with some wisely chosen droplets of humor. One can read the book cover to cover, but those interested in particular topics -e.g., Esperanto, the revival of modern Hebrew, Bahasa Indonesia - can read select chapters. However approached, the book is a delightful read. L. Lopez, University of Illinois at Chicago, Choice In depth and at the same time highly enjoyable, it will spark the interest not only of researchers in the field, but also of undergraduate and graduate students, and of general readers who want to know more about one (or more) of its charismatic protagonists. Federica Guerini, Linguistica e Filologia
The writing is elegant with some wisely chosen droplets of humor. One can read the book cover to cover, but those interested in particular topics -e.g., Esperanto, the revival of modern Hebrew, Bahasa Indonesia - can read select chapters. However approached, the book is a delightful read. * L. Lopez, University of Illinois at Chicago, Choice * An original and highly erudite contribution to the field of language policy and planning. * Angela Bartens, Sociolinguistic Studies * In depth and at the same time highly enjoyable, it will spark the interest not only of researchers in the field, but also of undergraduate and graduate students, and of general readers who want to know more about one (or more) of its charismatic protagonists. * Federica Guerini, Linguistica e Filologia * The scholarship and erudition of the book are outstanding, and the book makes language planning and policy issues accessible to a broader public of expert and nonexpert readers from all fields ... an easy, enjoyable read. * Iair Or, Elana Shohamy, Language * Coulmas uses his ingenious format to draw our attention to certain neglected aspects of the historical record... The book presents a sheaf of individual, idiosyncratic facts, ranging over triumphs and setbacks, both immediate and long term. * Probal Dasgupta, Language Problems and Language Planning *
In depth and at the same time highly enjoyable, it will spark the interest not only of researchers in the field, but also of undergraduate and graduate students, and of general readers who want to know more about one (or more) of its charismatic protagonists. Federica Guerini, Linguistica e Filologia
Author Information
Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Duisburg-Essen University. From 2004 to 2014, he served as director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, and he has held appointments at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, and Chuo University, Tokyo. He is the author of Writing and Society (CUP, 2014) and editor of Language Regimes in Transformation (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007) and The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Writing Systems (Blackwell, 1999). He is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
