Bilingual Districts as an Instrument in Canadian Language Policy

Don Cartwright · Colin Haslehurst Williams

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Multilingual Education and Policy Canadian Identity and History Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies

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"Accommodation of a multi-ethnic population within the territory of a single state has been recognized as a world-wide problem. Within such a society language maintenance is frequently the avenue through which cultural groups seek to preserve their identity. This paper describes and evaluates the Canadian experience of language planning by concentrating on the bilingual district, the key spatial instrument in the federal Official Languages Act. The paper argues for a cautious and spatially varied application of the 1969 Act and seeks to suggest ways in which a geolinguistic analysis may further our understanding of plurilingual societies."

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1978Bilingual Language Districts in Finland and Canada: Adventures in the Transplanting of an Institution

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