The Global Politics of Language: Markets, Maintenance, Marginalization, or Murder?

The Handbook of Language and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 77-100

  Skutnabb Kangas, Tove ^a   Phillipson, Robert ^a  

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Author keywords

English as the Hub of the World Language System; From colonization to corporate globalization; Global politics of language markets, maintenance, marginalization or murder; International language of wider communication (ILWC); Language hierarchization and linguistic capital accumulation; Linguistic genocide and crimes against humanity in education; Linguistic human rights in market oriented globalization; Linguistic Neo Imperialism English, as a capitalist neo imperial language; Neil Smith's American Empire Roosevelt's geographer and prelude to globalization; UNESCO's Safeguarding Endangered Languages website

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EID: 84885506505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324068.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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