"Resisting Arrest" in Status Planning: Structural and Covert Impediments to Status Change.

Schiffman, Harold F.

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ERIC Number: EJ443070

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Publication Date: 1992

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"Resisting Arrest" in Status Planning: Structural and Covert Impediments to Status Change.

Schiffman, Harold F.

Language and Communication, v12 n1 p1-15 Jan 1992

An examination of the cases of English in India and Malaysia and High German in Switzerland illustrates the many contradictions and difficulties in language policy and their effects on language status planning in terms of overt and covert language policies, linguistic register and repertoire, and the congruence between policy and polity. (34 references) (CB)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, German, Language Attitudes, Language Planning, Official Languages, Public Policy, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: India; Malaysia; Switzerland

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