Publications

Publication details [#56686]

Hassa, Samira. 2012. Regulating and negotiating linguistic diversity: top-down and bottom-up language planning in the Moroccan city. Current Issues in Language Planning 13 (3) : 207–223.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

advertisement | language planning | language status | language use | power

Language as a subject

Arabic, Moroccan | Berber | English | French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study of visual displays in Casablanca, Fes, and Rabat discloses a rather embroiled language planning, caused by running Moroccon political and socio-economic/linguistic transformations, and compares it to language distribution (French, Moroccan Arabic, English and Berber) and power relations.