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Dua, Hans Raj. 1996. The politics of language conflict: Implications for language planning and political theory. Language Problems and Language Planning 20 (1) : 1–17.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | language planning | language policy | power | symbol

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper characterizes the dynamics of language as a source of conflict on the basis of four features, namely language as symbol, instrument, resource and power, and argues for the development of an explanatory model of nature and scope of language conflicts in order to enable viable language policies.