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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The Global Language System | |
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| The Global Language System: a Galaxy of Languages | |
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| A Historical Atlas of the World as a Language System | |
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| Supercentral Constellations in the Present Language System | |
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| Scope and Approach of the Book | |
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| Plan of the Book | |
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| The Political Economy of Language Constellations | |
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| Languages as 'Hypercollective Goods' | |
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| The Communication Potential of a Language: the Q-value | |
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| Language, Culture and the Unequal Exchange of Texts | |
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| Texts as Commodities in International Exchange | |
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| Protectionism and Free Trade in Cultural Exchange | |
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| Monoglossia, Polyglossia and Heteroglossia | |
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| Discussion | |
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| India: The Rivalry between Hindi and English | |
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| Characterization of the Indian Constellation | |
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| State Formation, Nation-Building and Language Unification | |
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| The Vicissitudes of Language Policy in India | |
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| Discussion | |
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| The Triumph of Bahasa, Indonesia | |
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| Gandhi's Dream | |
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| The Rise of Malay | |
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| The Demise of Dutch | |
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| The Rejection of Javanese | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Africa: The Persistence of the Colonial Languages | |
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| A Two by Three Comparison | |
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| Three Francophone Constellations below the Sahara | |
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| Rwanda | |
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| Senegal | |
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| Congo/Zaire | |
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| Three English-Centered Constellations below the Sahara | |
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| Botswana | |
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| Tanzania | |
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| Nigeria | |
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| South Africa: The survival of the old language regime | |
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| The language regime under Apartheid | |
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| Language policy after Apartheid | |
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| The dynamics of the constellation | |
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| Discussion | |
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| The European Union: The More Languages, the More English | |
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| Civil Europe (1): Language Unification in National Constellations | |
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| Civil Europe(2): Q-values in the European Union | |
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| Institutional Europe (1): the Public Level | |
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| Institutional Europe (2): the Bureaucracy | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Conclusions and Considerations | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Considerations | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |