Languages after Brexit: How the UK Speaks to the World [Paperback]

This book represents a significant intervention into the debates surrounding Brexit and language policy. It analyses the language capabilities and resources of the United Kingdom in a new, post-referendum climate, in which public hostility towards foreign languages is matched by the necessity of renegotiating and building relationships with the rest of Europe and beyond. The authors scrutinize the availability of key resources in diverse sectors of society including politics, economics, business, science and education, while simultaneously offering practical advice and guidance on how to thrive in the new international environment. This extremely timely edited collection brings together leading researchers from across the field of language policy, and is sure to appeal not only to students and scholars of this subject, but also to practitioners, policy makers and educators.?

Chapter 1. Introduction;?Jean Coussins and Philip Harding-Esch.-?Part I. Living in a world of languages.- Chapter?2.Why are so many people resistant to other languages?;?Michael Kelly.- Chapter?3. Trouble with English?;?Jennifer Jenkins.- Chapter?4. A language-rich future for the UK;?Maria K Norton.-?Part II. What the UK needs in languages.- Chapter?5. This post-Brexit Linguanomics;?Gabrielle Hogan-Brun.- Chapter?6. Speaking to a global future  the increasing value of language and culture to British business post-Brexit;?Bernardette Holmes.- Chapter?7. Science and languages;?Charles Forsdick.- Chapter?8. Languages in the Eye of the Law;?Ann Carlisle.- Chapter?9. Language Plenty, Refugees and the post-Brexit world. New Practices from Scotland;?Alison Phipps.- Chapter?10. What every policy maker needs to know about cognitive benefits of bilingualism;?Dina Mehmedbegovic.-?Part III. Where the UK stands in language capacity.- Chapter?11. Languages in English secondary schools post-Brexit;?Teresa Tinsley.- Chapter?12. Modern Languages in Scotland in the context olóˇ