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Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws
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147 b
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Linguists, lawyers and political scientists interested in the role of legislation to protect language diversity within a liberal democracy will find this comprehensive and unified account of the 'Quebec language question' fascinating. In a multilingual community the role and importance of a language can shift with changes in the political power of the group that seeks it. This book first puts the Quebec question within a more general framework of language rights and language planning in multilingual societies, then explores in detail the historical and current responses to legislation in Canada, especially to the Federal Official Languages Act of 1969 and its subsequent amendments, and to the Quebec provinicial government's French Language Charter of 1977. Issues of legislative rights and policy are discussed in the light of passionate political and cultural responses from the Francophone and Anglophone populations.
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