Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy

Linguists, sociolinguists, and scholars of particular languages compare and contrast language policies and their practical outcomes in Australia, Europe, and North America. They also explore the increasingly dominant role of English in many speech communities, and how English as a global force interacts with national, transnational, or local interests in a variety of contexts. The themes are language policy at the official level, language policy in practice: indigenous and migrant languages in education, and language policy in real and virtual worlds. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Catrin Norrby is Professor of Scandinavian Languages at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Principal Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics at The University of Melbourne. She has published several monographs, edited books, textbooks and articles in the areas of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and second language acquisition. She is co-author of Language and Human Relations: Styles of Address in Contemporary Language (2009).

John Hajek is Professor of Italian and Director of the Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-cultural Communication (RUMACCC) in the School of Languages and Linguistics at The University of Melbourne. He is also founding president of the Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU).