Machine derived contents note: Preface -- 1. Introduction: the politics of communicative practice -- 2. The view from the centre: France -- 3. And England -- 4. A view from the periphery - Occitanie -- 5. The politics of language in Wales, Ireland and Scotland -- 6. Immigrants and language: the 'Mother Tongue' -- 7. Immigrants and language: the issue of competence -- 8. Language and social differentiation -- 9. Barbarous tongues: the hierarchiacal ordering of difference -- 10. Language, class, power, education -- 11. Authoritative discourse -- Bibliography -- Index
