Language Policy and Language Planning: From Nationalism to Globalisation

1. Introduction

PART I: COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF NATIONAL LANGUAGE
2. From Language Continuum to Linguistic Mosaic: European Language Communities from the Feudal Period to the Age of Nationalism
3. Language Planning in State Nations and Nation States
4. Nation Building in the Wake of Colonialism: Old Concepts in New Settings
PART II: TRANSCENDENCE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING
5. Transcending the Group: Languages of Contact and Lingua Francas
6. French: The Rise and Fall of a Prestige Lingua Franca
7. English: From Language of Empire to Language of Globalisation
8. Lingua Francas for the New Millennium
9. Globalisation and Rethinking the Concept of Language
PART III: RENAISSANCE AND REVITALISATION IN SMALL LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES
10. New Discourse, New Legal Instruments and a New Political Context for Minorities and their Languages
11 . New Polities and New Nation Building
12 . Endangered Languages
13. Conclusion: Community and Transcendence