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Peer reviewedSchiffman, Harold F. – Language and Communication, 1992
An examination of the cases of English in India and Malaysia and High German in Switzerland illustrates the many contradictions and difficulties in language policy and their effects on language status planning in terms of overt and covert language policies, linguistic register and repertoire, and the congruence between policy and polity. (34…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, German, Language Attitudes
