The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers’ identification with these languages,

Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important con

This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about lan

The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers identification with these languages, th

What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constra