Language Policy and Political Economy: English in a Global Context
Thomas Ricento
Feb 2015 · Oxford University Press
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This edited volume will articulate a new framework for language policy research that explores the connections between language policy and political economy in its analysis of how English affects the status of other languages in countries, specifically those where English is now spoken as a foreign or additional language.
About the author
Thomas Ricento is Professor and Research Chair at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has published widely in the field of language policy and on the politics of language in North America. He was a Fulbright Professor in Colombia (1989) and Costa Rica (2000), and a visiting professor at universities in Chile, Germany, Spain, , and Switzerland. He was Director of English Language Programs at the Japan Center for Michigan Universities, Hikone, Japan from 1989-1991.
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