The Territorial Concept of Official Bilingualism; A Cheaper Alternative for Canada?  

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Ridler, Neil B. ; Pons-Ridler, Suzanne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 2 (1989), page 147-158.
Fulltext: 11_02_Pons-Ridler.pdf (871.85KB)

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Canada’s present bilingualism program is presently based on the personality rather than the territorial principle. Belgium and Switzerland have adopted territoriality and a recent task force in New Brunswick has advocated that the province implement partial territoriality. This paper examines the two approaches, applying economic analysis to language planning. Given competition among languages, can government intervention in the language market protect the “weaker” language? Canadian experience suggests a negative response, in that heavy government expenditures have not stopped assimilation. Between the censal years 1971 and 1981 there was continued linguistic concentration; French in Quebec and English in the other provinces. An alternative is territoriality; this has the added bonus of being cheaper.

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