Books in the The Politics of Language series

The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars in both linguistic and literary works of the time.

Providing direct access to original texts, this is an historical resource book which can be used as a case study in the relations between language and cultural identity.

This book traces how and why Spanish has arrived at its current position, examining its role in the diverse societies where it is spoken from Europe to the Americas.

Is the English language neutral, global and open to everyone? By examining colonial language policies in India, Malaysia and Hong Kong, this book shows how various policies emerged which both reflected and produced colonial disourses.

Tony Crowley provides a new agenda for language study; one which acknowledges the fact that writing about history has always been determined by the historical context, and by issues of race, class and gender.

The focus of this book is to look at language policy in three very different nations: India, France and the US, and to examine how their policies are grounded in each of their own cultures.

In this topical study of the large scale loss of human language, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region. He focuses on cultural and historical forces to explain such loss.