Francophonie in the 1990s / Edition 1

by Dennis E Ager

Overview

This book is intended to make up-to-date information and opinion about Francophonie accessible to English-speaking readers, and to assess how well the international movement of French-speaking nations is placed to face the future. 'Francophonie' can be defined in three ways: as the development and distribution of the French language; as an international movement of nearly fifty countries and regions, similar to, but showing major differences from the Commonwealth; and as a set of cultural and political values which can be shared by other nations for which French is not the only or the main means of communication. Students of French, of international relations, of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, of politics and economics, and those interested in questions of cultural and linguistic identity will find the book invaluable as a source of reference, as an assessment of the effectiveness of the Francophone approach to world problems, and as an evaluation of France's own role in Europe and Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853593239
Publisher:	Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Publication date:	11/30/1995
Series:	Multilingual Matters
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Dennis Ager is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages at Aston University, UK. His interests lie in the interface between language and society. He is the author of Francophonie in the 1990s: Problems and Opportunities (Multilingual matters, 1996), Language Policy in Britain and France: The Processes of Policy (Cassells, 1996), Language, Community and the State (Intellect, 1997) and Identity, Insecurity and Image: France and Language (Multilingual matters, 1999).

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Contemporary Francophonie
1. The Development of Francophonie
2. The Distribution of Contemporary Francophonie
Part Two: Problems of Contemporary Francophonie
3. Problems for French: Language, Culture and Identity
4. The Problem of English and Other Languages
5. The Last Colonies? The DOM-TOM
6. The Economics of Francophonie
7. The Organisation of Francophonie
Part Three: Opportunities for Francophonie
8. Africa
9. Asia and the Pacific
10. Europe
Conclusions