Language and National Identity: Comparing France and Sweden
Leigh Oakes
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 13] 2001. x, 305 pp.
Leigh Oakes
List of John Benjamins publications for which Leigh Oakes plays a role.
Title
Subjects Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2021 Pluricentric linguistic justice in Quebec: An attitudinal study of the politics of norm setting in French Language Problems and Language Planning 45:3, pp. 331–356 | Article
With the emergence of the notion of Standard Quebec French, debates about linguistic usage in Quebec are today largely shaped by two competing normative models: an exonorm defined for all intents and purposes in France and an endonorm reflecting socially acceptable usage as determined by… read more
2008 11. Language planning and policy in Quebec Studies in French Applied Linguistics, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 345–385 | Article
En tant qu’îlot francophone dans une Amérique du Nord essentiellement anglophone, le Québec est souvent considéré comme un modèle dans les questions de politique et d’aménagement linguistiques. Suivant une discussion des processus théoriques concernés, ce chapitre examine les mesures d’aménagement… read more
2005 From internationalisation to globalisation: Language and the nationalist revival in Sweden Language Problems and Language Planning 29:2, pp. 151–176 | Article
In recent years, much has been made in the media and in academic circles of the risk that the world is heading towards linguistic convergence. But as internationalisation gives way to globalisation, as the emphasis shifts from mere contact between states to pressures for homogeneity, there is a… read more