Publications

Publication details [#27576]

Musa, monsur. 1996. Politics and language planning in Pakistan and the birth of a new state. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (118) : 63–80.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language planning | language politics | language status | nation | national language

Language as a subject

Bengali

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper deals with the failure of the Pakistani language planning theory and the 'one state-one language model', which led to the formation of the new state of Bangladesh in 1971.