Languages and Power: Accommodation and Resistance

摘要: Interconnections between language and power in the context of identity politics provide focus for this book. One primary issues contributors is process globalisation its consequences languages at all levels, major, regional migrant. The emerging deterritorialisation a new important consideration planning. This applies not just to major world such as Chinese or Spanish, but relevant levels. Minorities are no longer restrained by national geographical dependent solely on state bureaucracies recognition. Speakers operate modern transnational framework which has been considerably enhanced development media technology. People their ‘on move’. As individuals communities migrate from one location another, linguistic minorities formed fresh arise. There novel cultural contexts easily translated field intercultural communication resonances planners.