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Publication details [#53687]

Eggington, William. 2010. Towards accommodating the 'tragedy of the commons' effect in language policy development. Current Issues in Language Planning 11 (4) : 360–370.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language dominance | language planning | language policy | language shift | minority language

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study examines how language planners and policy-makers can handle understandings of the commons tragedy -self-interest in acquiring high dominant (English) language proficiency trumping minority language/community investment- in language planning.