Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec

Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec
Title Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec PDF eBook
Author Richard Y. Bourhis
Publisher Multilingual Matters
Pages 324
Release 1984
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780905028255

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This book presents a coherent picture of Quebec's efforts to make French the only official language of Quebec society. This book provides many answers as to why Bill 101 was implemented by the Quebec Government but it raises numerous questions when it comes time to evaluate the impact of the Charter on different sectors of Quebec society.

Language planning and policy in Quebec

Language planning and policy in Quebec
Title Language planning and policy in Quebec PDF eBook
Author Jakob Leimgruber
Publisher Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Pages 301
Release 2019-09-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3823393154

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This book presents an in-depth study of the language policies present in the Canadian province of Quebec, and considers them from a comparative perspective, with special focus on Singapore and Wales. In so doing, it uses a mix of methods to look at the effects of language planning on language use: questionnaires, linguistic landscapes (visible language in public space), ethnography, and psycholinguistic experiments. Besides offering background information on Canada and Quebec, the comparative element uses data from Singapore and Wales to shine a new light on how language is managed in Quebec.

Language and Conflict in Northern Ireland and Canada

Language and Conflict in Northern Ireland and Canada
Title Language and Conflict in Northern Ireland and Canada PDF eBook
Author Janet Muller
Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
Pages 310
Release 2010-07-16
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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Janet Muller presents a unique contribution to understanding the interaction between language policy and planning and modern conflict resolution. Against the backdrop of Quebec/Canada since the 1995 Quebec referendum on secession, she provides an insider account from the North of Ireland, assessing through these two examples the interplay of conflict and language policy in the protection and promotion of languages in minoritised circumstances. --

Canadian Language Policies in Comparative Perspective

Canadian Language Policies in Comparative Perspective
Title Canadian Language Policies in Comparative Perspective PDF eBook
Author Michael A. Morris
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 536
Release 2010-07-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0773590803

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Capturing the dynamism of Canadian language policies, the essays in this volume analyze and compare the effects, histories, and features of language policies as they have been enacted and implemented by Canadian provincial and federal governments. The contributors' comparisons reveal significant domestic and international implications for language policy. An important study of a social and political issue that has immediate local, national, and international consequences, Canadian Language Policies in Comparative Perspective assembles knowledgeable authorities on language policy to provide a comprehensive synthesis of its consequences.

Canada’s Official Languages

Canada’s Official Languages
Title Canada’s Official Languages PDF eBook
Author Helaina Gaspard
Publisher University of Ottawa Press
Pages 135
Release 2019-03-05
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0776623362

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Canada’s official languages legislation fundamentally altered the composition and operational considerations of federal institutions. With legislative change, Canada’s public service has achieved the equitable representation of its two official languages groups, provided services to the public in both official languages, and has codified rights for public servants to work in their official language of choice. On paper, the regime is robust. In practice, there is a persistent divergence between policy and practice, as English dominates as the regular language of work in the federal public service. Through an historical institutionalist lens based on extensive archival research and semi-structured interviews, Gaspard shows that the implementation of official languages policy in the federal public service from 1967–2013 could not challenge the predominance of English as the operating language of the federal public service. The analysis of the roles of actors, ideas and institutions that influenced the policy implementation process show that a lack of structural change, inadequate managerial engagement, and a false sense that both official languages are equally ingrained in the public service explain the persistence of English as the dominant language of work. This book is published in English. - La politique sur les langues officielles du Canada a transformé la composition et les considérations opérationnelles des institutions fédérales. Grâce aux modifications législatives, la fonction publique du Canada a réussi à mettre en place une représentation équitable de ses deux groupes de langues officielles, assure la prestation de services au public dans les deux langues officielles, et a procédé à la codification des droits des fonctionnaires de travailler dans la langue officielle de leur choix. En théorie, le régime est robuste. En pratique, il existe un fossé entre politique et pratique, l’anglais s’étant établi comme langue dominante de travail dans la fonction publique fédérale. En adoptant une approche historique à cette question institutionnelle et au moyen de recherches archivistiques et d’entrevues mi-structurées, Gaspard fait valoir que de 1967 à 2013, la mise en oeuvre du programme de langues officielles à la fonction publique fédérale n’a pu influer sur la trajectoire de l’anglais comme langue prépondérante de travail. L’analyse des rôles des intervenants et des institutions qui ont façonné le processus met en lumière le fait que l’absence de changements structurels, l’engagement insuffisant des gestionnaires, de même que la perception erronée que les langues officielles sont toutes deux bien ancrées dans la fonction publique se conjuguent pour expliquer la persistance de l’anglais comme principale langue de travail. Ce livre est publié en anglais.

Bilingual Today, United Tomorrow

Bilingual Today, United Tomorrow
Title Bilingual Today, United Tomorrow PDF eBook
Author Matthew Hayday
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 272
Release 2005-12-20
Genre Education
ISBN 0773559965

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"In an appraisal of official bilingualism, Matthew Hayday demonstrates that the language programs and policies initiated by the Trudeau government supported French-Canadian and Acadian minority communities. He argues that these policies enabled the development of minority language education systems and laid the foundations for the language rights contained in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms." --Résumé de l'éditeur.

Language, Policy and Territory

Language, Policy and Territory
Title Language, Policy and Territory PDF eBook
Author Wilson McLeod
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 434
Release 2022-07-07
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3030943461

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This volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a range of topics involving different aspects of language legislation and language rights, governance, economics, territoriality, land use planning, and onomastics. Six chapters address policy issues in Professor Williams’s native Wales while others focus on Canada, Catalonia, Ireland and Scotland. The volume concludes with an Afterword by Professor Williams himself. The book will be suitable for postgraduates and researchers not only in the field of language policy and planning but also sociolinguistics, geography, law and political science.