Uniformity and Diversity in Language Policy

This book brings together current research by leading international scholars on the often contentious nature of language policies and their practical outcomes in North America, Australia and Europe. It presents a range of perspectives from which to engage with a variety of pressing issues raised by multilingualism, multiculturalism, immigration, exclusion, and identity.

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, a former research fellow at the Universities of Oxford and Melbourne, is Professor in Italian Studies at the University of Melbourne, where he is also director of the Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication (RUMACCC). He has more than 100 publications, covering a wide area of linguistic topics: sociolinguistics, phonetics, phonology and linguistic typology, with a special interest in Italian and other European languages, as well as the languages of the Asia-Pacific region.