SOCIOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING IN THE USA.Thom Huebner and Kathryn Davis (Eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1999. Pp. viii + 360. $90.00 cloth.

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-559
Author(s):  
Thomas Ricento
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
American Association ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Creole English

This volume is a collection of papers, the majority of which were first presented on a colloquium at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference in 1997. The volume is dedicated to Charlene Junko (Charlie) Sato, who died in 1996 at the age of 44. Charlie was a political activist in several domains but was perhaps best known in applied linguistics circles for her work in support of Hawai'i Creole English (HCE) in communities and schools.

scholarly journals Foreword

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. vii-xii ◽  
Author(s):  
William Grabe
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
National Level ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Policy And Planning

This volume of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics returns to a topic first covered in Volume Two (1982). In the time-span between thematic volumes on Language Policy and Planning (LPP), major changes have evolved in the field and recent world events have led practitioners to rethink many issues and concerns related to language policy and planning. In the early 1980s, many LPP discussions centered around various national case studies of language policy and planning; indeed, the stress on policy, as separate from planning, was not often emphasized. The focus on non-national level planning was also not as common as the national-level focus.

scholarly journals Current issues in LPP research and their impact on society

AILA Review ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Darquennes
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Preliminary Discussion ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
The Impact

After a very broad description of what language policy and planning is about this paper presents an overview of some of the current preoccupations of researchers focusing on language policy and planning as one of the blooming fields of applied linguistics. The current issues in language policy and planning research that are dealt with include ‘the history of the field’, ‘language practices in different domains of society’, ‘ideas and beliefs about language’, and ‘the practical side of language policy and planning’. The brief sketch of current issues in language policy and planning research is meant to serve as the background for a preliminary discussion of the impact of language policy and planning research on society. That discussion takes the different ‘roles’ of academics working at university departments and doing research on language policy and planning as a starting point.

LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sauli Takala ◽  
Kari Sajavaara
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Policy And Planning

The field of language policy and planning is clearly a sub-field within applied linguistics. It generally does not draw heavily on formal linguistics, except for aspects of corpus and status planning. However, it does draw extensively from a range of disciplines in order to plan, implement, and evaluate language policies that respond to the needs of stake holders of various types. Despite continuous development of the field, aspects of language policy and planning need to be developed further. One of the key areas where policy can be enhanced considerably is in the area of policy and planning evaluation. This direction of inquiry is also relevant to a number of other areas within applied linguistics.

Reflect, Revisit, Reimagine: Ethnography of Language Policy and Planning

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
Nancy H. Hornberger
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
Policy And Planning

AbstractTracing applied linguists’ interests in language policy and planning (LPP) as reflected in the pages of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics since its founding in 1980, I focus on the emergence of, and current boom in, ethnographic LPP research. I draw on the ethnographic concept of ideological and implementational LPP spaces as scalar, layered policies and practices influencing each other, mutually reinforcing, wedging, and transforming ideology through implementation and vice versa. Doing so highlights how the perennial policy-practice gap is given nuance through exploration of the intertwining dynamics of top-down/bottom-up language planning activities and processes, monoglossic/heteroglossic language ideologies and practices, potential equality/actual inequality of languages, and critical/transformative research paradigms in LPP.

scholarly journals [Unplanned] Language Policy and Planning

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 82-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Baldauf
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Language Needs ◽  
Policy And Planning

Naturally enough, the field of language planning, as its name suggests, has concentrated its efforts on the description and practice of planned language development. This is after all its raison d'être, to provide future oriented, problem-solving language-change strategies to meet particular language needs. This orientation means that language planning is one of the key descriptive topics in applied linguistics, bringing together as it does theory from a variety of disciplines and putting that into practice. Grabe and Kaplan (1992) estimate that the applied linguistics aspects of language policy and planning make up one of four categories that accounts for about 45 percent of the items published in this field.

Language policy and language planning in mainland Southeast Asia: Myanmar and Lisu

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
National Language ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Mainland Southeast Asia

AbstractMost nations in mainland Southeast Asia and elsewhere have one national language as a focus of national identity and unity, supported by a language policy which promotes and develops this language. Indigenous and immigrant minority groups within each nation may be marginalized; their languages may become endangered. Some of the official national language policies and ethnic policies of mainland Southeast Asian nations aim to support both a national language and indigenous minority languages, but usually the real policy is less positive. It is possible to use sociolinguistic and educational strategies to maintain the linguistic heritage and diversity of a nation, develop bilingual skills among minority groups, and integrate minorities successfully into the nations where they live, but this requires commitment and effort from the minorities themselves and from government and other authorities. The main focus of this paper is two case studies: one of language policy and planning in Myanmar, whose language policy and planning has rarely been discussed before. The other is on the Lisu, a minority group in Myanmar and surrounding countries, who have been relatively successful in maintaining their language.

Language Policy and Planning in Independent Namibia

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 240-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfrid Haacke
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Language Policy And Planning ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
Local Languages

An advantage of Namibia's late attainment of independence is that it can benefit from the experience of other African countries that achieved independence some thirty years earlier. Hence Namibia is unique in that it is the only country in sub-Saharan Africa that at the time of attaining independence already provided for constitutional rights for its local languages. The major policy document of the then liberation movement SWAPO, Toward a language policy for an independent Namibia (United Nations Institute for Namibia 1981), which was published in Lusaka by the institute (UNIN) as proceedings of a seminar held in 1980, essentially set the trend for the policies pursued since independence in 1990.

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