ISBN-13: 9780521108614
Preface;
1. Introduction: the politics of communicative practice;
2. The view from the centre: France;
3. And England;
4. A view from the periphery - Occitanie;
5. The politics of language in Wales, Ireland and Scotland;
6. Immigrants and language: the 'Mother Tongue';
7. Immigrants and language: the issue of competence;
8. Language and social differentiation;
9. Barbarous tongues: the hierarchical ordering of difference;
10. Language, class, power, education;
11. Authoritative discourse;
Bibliography; Index.