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Dennis Ager, Motivation in language planning and language policy. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 2001. Pp. vi, 210. Pb. $24.95; Kas Deprez & Theo du Plessis, eds., Multilingualism and government: Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia, South Africa. (Studies in language policy in South Africa.) Pretoria: Van Schaik, 2000. Pp. xii, 179.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Christina Bratt Paulston
Christina Bratt Paulston
Affiliation:
Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, paulston@imap.pitt.edu
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Abstract

The two books under review, Motivation in language planning and language policy (MLPP) and Multilingualism and government (M&G), are both about language policy, at least at one level, and both are, or claim to be, based on case studies. That is the end of any similarity between them.

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Language in Society , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , November 2002 , pp. 790 - 796
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2002 Cambridge University Press

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