Languages in contact and conflict
Subtitle: contrasting experiences in the Netherlands and Belgium
By: edited by Sue Wright with Helen Kelly.
Contributors: Wright, Sue, 1947-; Kelly-Holmes, Helen, 1968-
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Clevedon [England]; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Sociolinguistics -- Netherlands -- Congresses.; Languages in contact -- Netherlands -- Congresses.; Sociolinguistics -- Belgium -- Congresses.; Languages in contact -- Belgium -- Congresses.
Other titles: Current issues in language & society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers presented at a series of lectures given during the spring terms of 1993 and 1994.
"Also available as Vol. 1, No. 2 of the journal Current issues in language and society"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Multilingualism and education : an overview of language and education policies for ethnic minorities in the Netherlands / Sjaak Kroon and Ton Vallen; title: A response to Kroon and Vallen : a parallel overview of the education policy for bilingual children in Britain / Linda Thompson; title: A response to Kroon and Vallen : questions of citizenship, nationality, and social cohesiveness / Dennis Ager; title: The linguistic situation in the new Belgium / Ludo Beheydt; title: Language in contact and conflict : the Belgian experience and the European Union / Peter Hans Nelde; title: The debate.