Félix Marti. Un monde de paroles, Paroles du monde

Abstract

Words And Worlds World Languages Review is an essential work for who wants to know the current situation of the languages in the world. It offers a vast outline of linguistic diversity. It helps to understand the globalization in progress and makes known the methods and the results of a certain number of policies of language planning. The study is based on the work of a technical committee of eight authors who called upon the collaboration of very many specialists and experts of the languages throughout the world, of institutions and very diverse organizations. This provides the base to analyses and syntheses of the most interest in the treated fields. In this review we are interested more particularly in the chapter devoted to the language teaching and in information on the Creole languages. The major point is that, in view of the globalization and the risk of disappearance of very many languages, the future is in a generalized multilingual education.