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Publication details [#60536]

Matras, Yaron and Alex Robertson. 2015. Multilingualism in a post-industrial city: policy and practice in Manchester. Current Issues in Language Planning 16 (3) : 296–314.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Whereas Manchester city officially marks itself as multicultural to lure foreign investment, language provisions are local, reactive, frequently outsourced, and firstly strive for assuring equal public service admission rather than to protect or foster cultural heritage or even to evolve language skills as manpower resource crucial to economic growth. Such a setting requires a mechanism that constantly controls language profile shifts and language needs.