Blommaert, Jan <br/><br/>
Language ideological debates / 
edited by Jan Blommaert. 
 - Berlin ;  New York :  Mouton de Gruyter,  1999. 
 - 447 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Language, power, and social process ;  2 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/> Contents -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- Debate is open -- Locating power : Corsican translators and their critics -- Ideology of dialect in Switzerland -- Language ideological debates in an Olympic city : Barcelona 1992-1996 -- Heated language in a cold climate -- Debate on bilingual education in the U.S. : language ideology as reflected in the practice of bilingual teachers -- Ebonics controversy in context : literacies, subjectivities, and language ideologies in the United States -- Singapore's Speak Mandarin Campaign : language ideological debates in the imagining of the nation -- Linguistic and political attitudes towards Israeli Hebrew : ongoing revival versus normalcy -- Politics, ideology and poetic form : the literacy debate in Tanzania -- Portuguese as ideology and politics in Mozambique : semiotic (re)constructions of a postcolony -- Flemish nationalism in the Belgian Congo versus Zairian anti-imperialism : continuity and discontinuity in language ideological debates -- Debate is closed -- Name index -- Subject index. 
<br/><br/> « Language Ideological Debates presents analysis of historically situated discursive events - debates - during which ideas about language are formed, articulated, and authoritatively entextualized.» (4th cover) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>3110163500 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sociolinguistics.<br/>Language and languages--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P40  / .I2965 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.44