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Download full textFasold, Ralph – 1985
A national language is useful as one means of creating social cohesion at the level of the whole country. It is also a symbol of national identity and of a nation's distinction from other countries. Probably no nation will ever be fully satisfied with a language that is a national language in the symbolic sense only, but the symbolic function of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Unity, Language Planning, Language Role
