Cover -- Linguistic Culture and Language Policy -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: language policy and linguistic culture -- 1.1 Typologizing language policy -- 1.2 Policies and polities -- 1.3 Inputs and outcomes: causes and effects -- 1.4 The locus of language policy -- 1.5 Overt policies and covert policies: policy in conflict with reality -- 1.6 Some myths about language -- 1.7 Religion, linguistic culture and language policy -- 1.8 The structure of this book -- 2 Typologies of multilingualism and typologies of language policy -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Discussion of typologies of multilingualism: linguistic registers and repertoires -- 2.3 Register and repertoire -- 3 Religion, myth and linguistic culture -- 3.1 What is meant by language? -- 3.2 Religious beliefs and linguistic culture -- 3.3 Religion, linguistic culture and language policy -- 3.4 Some myths about language -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Language policy and linguistic culture in France -- 4.1 Epitomizing French linguistic culture -- 4.2 Historical background -- 4.3 The origin of French, the origin of France -- 4.4 The ordonnance of Villers-Cotterêts, 1539 (François I) -- 4.5 The French language and the Enlightenment -- 4.6 The French Revolution and French language policy -- 4.7 Stage two: impatient forces -- 4.8 What did not happen during the French Revolution? -- 4.9 French in the nineteenth century -- 4.10 Conclusion -- 5 French in the marginal areas: Alsace and the other regions -- 5.1 Core and periphery -- 5.2 History of a region -- 5.3 Brunot on Alsace -- 5.4 Linguistic culture in Alsace -- 6 Indian linguistic culture and the genesis of language policy in the subcontinent -- 6.1 Where do language policies come from? -- 6.2 Linguistic culture and language policy in South Asia.

6.3 Language in ancient India -- 6.4 Language and colonialism -- 6.5 Language policy in Independent India -- 6.6 'Three-Language Formula' -- 6.7 Guarantees at the state and regional level -- 6.8 Summary: antiquity, ubiquity, orality, diversity -- 7 Language policy and linguistic culture in Tamilnadu -- 7.1 Ancient Tamil linguistic culture -- 7.2 Purism and Tamil -- 7.3 Conflicting projects -- 7.4 Tamil diglossia, without which there can be no myth -- 7.5 Language policy in Tamilnadu at the end of the twentieth century -- 7.6 Summation: Tamil linguistic culture and policy -- 8 Language policy in the United States -- 8.1 What is that masked policy, anyway? -- 8.2 The colonial period and Native-American languages -- 8.3 The federal period -- 8.4 The nineteenth century: immigration and consolidation -- 8.5 World War I: the house of cards collapses -- 8.6 Aftermath of World War I -- 8.7 The twentieth century: the covert policy victorious -- 8.8 US language policy in the late twentieth century -- 9 Language policy in California -- 9.1 California: trend-setter or off the wall? -- 9.2 The Native-American heritage -- 9.3 Postscript: the Native American Languages Act -- 9.4 The Spanish heritage -- 9.5 The arrival of Anglo-Americans -- 9.6 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo -- 9.7 Lau v. Nichols, 1974 -- 9.8 Proposition 63 -- 9.9 After Proposition 63 -- 9.10 Summation -- 10 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.