Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:05:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: monolingualism and mother tongues


There's quite an extensive literature on this, most of which I haven't 
looked at in quite a while.  I would recommend, off the top of my head:

Louis-Jean Calvet "Linguistique et Colonialisme" a book I have found only 
in French -- don't know if it has every been translated.  It SHOULD be!

Rolf Kjolseth, "Cultural Politics of Bilingualism" in Society, 20:4, 
May/June 1983.

Anderson summarizes some of this bibliography in Imagined Communities, 
and there is some really intersting material on how the French Revolution 
set out to suppress Provencal, Basque, Catalan, and German, because the 
new revolutionary state had to speak only French.  I will try to find 
those cites.

Roberta


On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Aravinda Pillalamarri wrote:

> 
> I am interested in finding out how and when mono lingualism came to e
> popular in different parts of the world, and when the concept of "mother
> tongue" came to be accepted.  Can any of you recommend some sources for me
> to research this?  
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