Publications

Publication details [#11844]

Maurais, Jacques. 1997. Regional Majority Languages, Language Planning, and Linguistic Rights. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 127 : 135–160. 26 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language planning | linguistic human rights | majority language

Language as a subject

English, Canadian | French, Quebecois

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

A study of legal measures taken to protect majority languages, with special attention being given to the language situation in Quebec. A number of basic language planning principles are given.