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Spolsky, Bernard
Rethinking Language Policy, 04/2021Book Chapter
The Bronx high school teacher auditing Max Weinreich’s class in 1944 who defined a language as a dialect with an army and a navy (Weinreich, 1944) not only set off a long dispute as to who said that¹ but provided a useful suggestion about the requirements for recognition of a named language. But it also hints at the many intriguing aspects of military language policy and management and of military influences on language policy. In this chapter,² I first sketch language management as resulting from the communication needs of armed forces and in the next chapter look at the effects
