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cup.org>Title: Languages in a Globalising World Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge University Press http://www.cup.org Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521821738 Availability: Available Editor: Jacques Maurais, Office of French Language of Qu�bec Editor: Michael A. Morris, Clemson University Hardback: ISBN: 0521821738, Pages: 362, Price: U.K. �: 47.50 Hardback: ISBN: 0521821738, Pages: 362, Price: U.S. $: 65 Abstract: Throughout human history, the fate of languages has been closely linked to political power relationships. Political shifts in the international system continue to affect linguistic patterns, which today are still in a state of flux following the end of the Cold War. This book considers the effects of present-day trends in global politics on the relative status of languages, and the directions in which the linguistic hierarchy might develop in the future. What are the prospects for the continuing spread of English? Will other traditionally prominent languages such as French and German gain or lose influence? Will languages such as Arabic and Japanese increase in international status? Will minority languages continue to lose ground and disappear? The book assesses these prospects, looking at the major world regions, and with its interdisciplinary approach it will appeal to researchers and students of sociolinguistics and language planning as well as of international relations. 1. Introduction Jacques Maurais and Michael A. Morris Part I. Global Communication Challenges: 2. Toward a new global linguistic order? Jacques Maurais 3. The geostrategies of interlingualism Mark Fettes 4. Language policy and linguistic theory Douglas A. Kibbee 5. Babel and the market: geostrategies for minority languages Jean Laponce 6. Forecasting the fate of languages William F. Mackey Part II. Major Areas: 7. Language geostrategy in Eastern and Central Europe: assessment and perspectives Ferenc Fodor and Sandrine Peluau 8. Languages and supranationality in Europe: the linguistic influence of the European Union Claude Truchot 9. Regional blocs as a barrier against English hegemony? The language policy of Mercosur in South America Rainer Enrique Hamel 10. Effects of North American integration on linguistic diversity Michael Morris 11. Sociolinguistic changes in transformed Central Asian societies Birgit N. Schlyter 12. Language and script in Japan and other East Asian countries: between insularity and technology Stefan Kaiser 13. Sub-Saharan Africa Roland Breton 14. Australasia and the South Pacific Richard B. Baldauf Jr. and Paulin G. Djit� Part III. Languages of Wider Communication: 15. The international status of the German language Ulrich Ammon 16. Arabic and the new technologies Foued Laroussi 17. Russian in the modern world Vida Io. Mikhalchenko and Yulia Trushkova 18. Geolinguistics, geopolitics, geostrategy: the case of French Robert Chaudenson 19. Toward a scientific geostrategy for English Grant McConnell 20. On Brazilian Portuguese in Latin American Integration Maria da Gra�i�Krieger 21. Conclusion: the search for a global linguistic strategy Humphrey Tonkin. Lingfield(s): Sociolinguistics Written In: English (Language Code: English) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=7849Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue