Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher:
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Category : Biculturalism
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biculturalism
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
A Preliminary Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher: New York : Arno Press
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Prelim. report in English and French; Books I and II in English only.
Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders
Author: Janny H.C. LeungPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190210346
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
What challenges face jurisdictions that attempt to conduct law in two or more languages? How does choosing a legal language affect the way in which justice is delivered? Answers to these questions are vital for the 75 officially bilingual and multilingual states of the world, as well as for other states contemplating a move towards multilingualism. Arguably such questions have implications for all countries in a world characterized by the pressures of globalization, economic integration, population mobility, decolonization, and linguistic re-colonization. For lawyers, addressing such challenges is made essential by the increased frequency and scale of transnational legal dealings and proceedings, as well as by the lengthening reach of international law. But it is not only policy makers, legislators, and other legal practitioners who must think about such questions. The relationship between societal multilingualism and law also raises questions for the burgeoning field of language and law, which posits--among other tenets--the centrality of language in legal processes. In this book, Janny H.C. Leung examines key aspects of legal multilingualism. Drawing extensively on case studies, she describes the implications of the legal, practical, and ideological dilemmas encountered in a given country when it becomes bilingual or multilingual, discussing such issues as: how legal certainty and the linguistic ideology of authenticity may be challenged in a multilingual jurisdiction; how courts balance the language preferences of different courtroom participants; and what historical, socio-political and economic factors may influence the decision to cement a given language as a jurisdiction's official language. Throughout, Leung elaborates a theory of "symbolic jurisprudence" to explore common dilemmas found across countries, despite their varied political and cultural settings, and argues that linguistic equality as proclaimed and practiced today is a shallow kind of equality. Although officially multilingual jurisdictions appear to be more inclusive than their monolingual counterparts, they run the risk of disguising substantive inequalities and displacing real efforts for more progressive social change. This is the first book to offer overarching discussion of how such issues relate to each other, and the first systematic study of legal multilingualism as a global phenomenon.
Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism: Book V, The Federal capital. Book VI, Voluntary associations
Author: Canada. Royal Commission on Bilingualism and BiculturalismPublisher:
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Category : Biculturalism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Language Rights in Canada
Author: Michel BastarachePublisher: Editions Y. Blais
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Heirs of Lord Durham
Author: Fédération des francophones hors QuébecPublisher: [Don Mills, Ont.] : Burns and MacEachern
ISBN: 9780887680816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Language Matters
Author: David R. CameronPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858729
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In the 1960s, a study for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism Commission revealed that Canadian associations were often paralyzed by internal conflicts over language. Language Matters examines whether this remains the case.The contributors present case studies or life histories of diverse associations, from business organizations to groups concerned with social justice. They examine key turning points in the given association's history and explore how its mandate, leadership, relationship to the federal and provincial governments, and shifting options in the political arena shaped its response to linguistic diversity. Language Matters provides a deeper understanding of the language dynamic in Canada and offers solutions to groups and governments trying to manage difference.
Education in Canada
Author: E. Gault FinleyPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
French in Canada
Author: Maeve ConrickPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039101429
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book analyses comprehensively the complex linguistic situation in Canada focusing particularly on the position of the French language at both national and provincial levels. Language issues in Canada are of great interest to linguists and sociolinguists for many reasons, not least because of Canada's policy of official bilingualism (Official Languages Act, 1969). The authors address a wide range of topics of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of French and Linguistics as well as readers with a specialist interest in Canadian or Quebec Studies. Individual chapters discuss the historical background to the presence of French in Canada, language policy and planning at federal and provincial levels, the changing linguistic landscape of Canada in the twenty-first century, the multilingual community, language contact, code-switching, immersion education and the language of the L2 speaker, the dynamics of French in Canada, language variation and change. The status of French in Canada is of relevance to all researchers with an interest in multilingualism, a crucial issue in this era of globalisation. The authors bring their expertise as linguists to bear on a subject which is of considerable importance internationally as well as within Canada.
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