A strong sense of national identity is seen as essential to a stable and enduring state. But can national identity be built, or must it just be allowed to “happen”? It is argued that as language plays an essential role in creating and maintaining identity, national identity can be built through national language (NL). However, to be effective, NL policy must address some important issues, such as whether the selected NL has negative colonial associations, prior lingua franca status, claims of ownership by a specific group, accessibility, diffusion and sense of security. The diverse experiences of India, Indonesia, South Africa and Sri Lanka are presented and a general model of the criteria for a successful NL policy offered
The abstract dwells upon the mechanisms of language policy change in concern with national identity ...
This ethnographic study has been undertaken to shed light on the role of language in the constructio...
Mother-tongue is a term commonly used to refer to the first language learned by a child in the home....
A strong sense of national identity is seen as essential to a stable and enduring state. But can nat...
This article will examine some of the ways that political leaders attempt to create, control, and ot...
ABSTRACT. The question of national language choice, acceptance, promo-tion, and development has rais...
Nationalism is a key foundation in developing nation-building. By taking into account of one factor ...
Conveniently, human language could be taken into consideration as a worth property at outset belonge...
It is argued in this paper that although the South Asian sub-continent was split into two independen...
Situating language, recognising multilingualism: Linguistic identities and mother tongue attachment ...
This article reviews a range of ways in which issues of national identity have been shown to be link...
Bahasa Indonesia adalah bahasa resmi dan bahasa nasional di Indonesia dan menjadi "lingua franca" d...
Language is one of the factors that contributes to the formation of national identity. In the case o...
Indonesia as a large archipelagic country causes Indonesia to have the largest number of regional la...
Indonesia, virtually alone among post-colonial nations, has been successful at promoting an indigeno...
The abstract dwells upon the mechanisms of language policy change in concern with national identity ...
This ethnographic study has been undertaken to shed light on the role of language in the constructio...
Mother-tongue is a term commonly used to refer to the first language learned by a child in the home....
A strong sense of national identity is seen as essential to a stable and enduring state. But can nat...
This article will examine some of the ways that political leaders attempt to create, control, and ot...
ABSTRACT. The question of national language choice, acceptance, promo-tion, and development has rais...
Nationalism is a key foundation in developing nation-building. By taking into account of one factor ...
Conveniently, human language could be taken into consideration as a worth property at outset belonge...
It is argued in this paper that although the South Asian sub-continent was split into two independen...
Situating language, recognising multilingualism: Linguistic identities and mother tongue attachment ...
This article reviews a range of ways in which issues of national identity have been shown to be link...
Bahasa Indonesia adalah bahasa resmi dan bahasa nasional di Indonesia dan menjadi "lingua franca" d...
Language is one of the factors that contributes to the formation of national identity. In the case o...
Indonesia as a large archipelagic country causes Indonesia to have the largest number of regional la...
Indonesia, virtually alone among post-colonial nations, has been successful at promoting an indigeno...
The abstract dwells upon the mechanisms of language policy change in concern with national identity ...
This ethnographic study has been undertaken to shed light on the role of language in the constructio...
Mother-tongue is a term commonly used to refer to the first language learned by a child in the home....
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