Language Planning and French-English Bilingual Communication: Montreal Field Studies from 1977 to 1997

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Language Planning and French-English Bilingual Communication: Montreal Field Studies from 1977 to 1997
Abstract
An analysis of how Quebec's language laws succeeded in changing the respective ethnolinguistic vitality of the Francophone majority and Anglophone minority in the province. The authors also retest earlier empirical field studies of bilingual communication in Montreal by having randomly accosted pedestrians asked for directions in either English or French. Results of the 1997 study showed that both Francophone and Anglophone pedestrians overwhelmingly converged to the linguistic needs of the person seeking directions.
Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Volume
No. 185
Pages
187-224
Date
May 2007
Language
en
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Citation
Bourhis, Richard Y., Elisa Montaruli, and Catherine E. Amiot. “Language Planning and French-English Bilingual Communication: Montreal Field Studies from 1977 to 1997.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language No. 185 (May 2007): 187–224. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269710623_Language_planning_and_French-English_bilingual_communication_Montreal_field_studies_from_1977_to_1997.
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