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Publication details [#35752]

Maurais, Jacques. 1991. A sociolinguistics comparison between Québec's charter of the French language and the 1989 language laws of five Soviet republic. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 12 (1/2) : 117–126.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | law | official language | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article sociolinguistically compares Québec's Charter of the French Language with the 1989 Language Laws of 5 Soviet Republics, i.e. Moldavia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It also specifically addresses bilingualism.