LEADER 03672nam 2200673z- 450 001 9910619477903321 005 20231214133645.0 010 $a1-928424-13-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011658259 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93337 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011658259 100 $a20202210d2017 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIn pursuit of societal harmony and officially multilingual countries$eReviewing the experiences and approaches in officially monolingual 210 $aBloemfontein$cUJ Press$d2017 215 $a1 electronic resource (205 p.) 311 $a1-928424-12-0 330 $aIn pursuit of societal harmony: Reviewing the experiences and approaches in officially monolingual and officially multilingual countries contains a selection of papers on language legislation that were presented at the International Conference on Language Policy in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings, Mandalay, Myanmar, 8-11 February 2016. The editors, both members of the International Academy of Language Law / Académie internationale de droit linguistique, brought together presentations that deal with language legislation and practices in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. The contributions show that the post-communist trend in language policy has been vastly represented by attempts to eliminate the language, and even the cultural legacy, of the formerly hegemonic nation/s in countries emerging after the collapse of the system. In doing so officials in these countries tend to link the harmonisation of a diverse society with the idea of homogenising its population, and prioritising the cultural legacy of the titular nation. In contrast, some post-colonial countries are more tolerant of the language of their colonisers but consequently do not sufficiently promote the institutionalisation of their indigenous languages. Furthermore, the absence of visible efforts to follow any legal pattern in this regard often result in a communication gap between government and the various communities. 517 $aIn pursuit of societal harmony and officially multilingual countries 606 $aHistorical & comparative linguistics$2bicssc 606 $aEducation & the law$2bicssc 610 $aLanguage 610 $aLanguage Rights 610 $aMulticultural society 610 $aPolicy 610 $aPost-colonial and comparative perspectives 610 $alanguage legislation 610 $aUkraine 610 $aSouth Africa 610 $aLanguage policies 610 $aaccess to information services 610 $aOntario 610 $aBurkina Faso 610 $aMacau 610 $amultilingual language policy 610 $aMalaysia 610 $aPost-Soviet and Post-Communist studies 610 $aLinguistic landscape in Azerbaijan 610 $aNation building and bilingualism in Latvia 610 $aideologies of language 610 $aCroatia 610 $aLithuania 610 $aconference proceedings 610 $anational cultural heritage 610 $aethnic composition 615 7$aHistorical & comparative linguistics 615 7$aEducation & the law 700 $aA'Beckett$b Ludmilla$4edt$01325528 702 $adu Plessis$b Theodorus$4edt 702 $aA'Beckett$b Ludmilla$4oth 702 $adu Plessis$b Theodorus$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910619477903321 996 $aIn pursuit of societal harmony and officially multilingual countries$93036939 997 $aUNINA