Language Choice in a Nation Under Transition : English Language Spread in Cambodia

Language Choice in a Nation under Transition charts the spread of English into Cambodia and the French efforts to contest this spread in favor of their own language through an analysis of the countrys recent history. This book proposes a synthesis of the national-functional and international-critical perspectives. This synthesis emerges from the Cambodian experience and thus adheres to Joshua Fishmans admonition that theory reflect the "sharp bite of local detail and unique historical experience."