Yucatec Maya language planning and the struggle of the linguistic standardization process

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (260) ◽  
pp. 61-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Guerrettaz
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Yucatec Maya ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Main Target ◽  
Standardization Process ◽  
The Government ◽  
Vast Variation ◽  
Acquisition Planning ◽  
Learning Economy

Abstract This study on Yucatec Maya language planning analyzes the linguistic standardization process over a six-year period. The primary research site was the programa, a mandatory Yucatec Maya course for 1,600 Indigenous Education teachers in Mexico. Alongside this acquisition planning effort, other government agencies simultaneously produced an official standard Maya. Programa administrators who oppose official standardization made their own model of Maya in widely distributed government textbooks. Neither model was the main target of programa language teaching; the Maya of classrooms is characterized by vast variation. Although the government promulgated an official standard in 2014, standardization of Maya has not been attained. The difficulties of creating a popular standard by and for Indigenous language speakers are analyzed. Social networks upholding different models of Maya are examined through an economy of language planning framework that views language as social capital and integrates knowledge and learning economy concepts. This research presents the notion of social-linguistic orders to understand how different models of a language coexist and/or compete in a language planning endeavor.

scholarly journals The Buchanan report and its aftermath: Implications for Irish regional planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-63
Author(s):  
Proinnsias Breathnach
Keyword(s):  
Regional Planning ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
National Planning ◽  
Industrial Employment ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Industry ◽  
Growth Centres

AbstractThe so-called Buchanan report, commissioned by the Irish government and published in May 1969, comprised a set of proposals for regional industrial development in Ireland over the period 1966–86. The main thrust of the report was the concentration of the great bulk of new industrial employment creation in Dublin and eight proposed ‘growth centres’. The plan provided for the creation of powerful planning authorities to oversee development in the regions. The government rejected these proposals and opted instead to continue with the existing policy of widespread dispersal of new industry. While meeting with initial success, this policy proved unsustainable in the long term. The paper reviews the implications of the Buchanan report experience for the regional planning process in Ireland, arguing that failure to learn from this experience served to undermine the National Spatial Strategy, with a similar fate likely for the forthcoming National Planning Framework.

scholarly journals The Correlation between Language Acquisition and Language Planning

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Ramlan Ramlan
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Native Language ◽  
First Language ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
First Language Acquisition ◽  
Unconscious Learning ◽  
Acquisition Planning

Language acquisition is a process which can take place at any period of one's life. In the sense of first language acquisition, however, it refers to the acquisition (unconscious learning) of one's native language (or languages in the case of bilinguals) during the first 6 or 7 years of one's life (roughly from birth to the time one starts school).Language acquisition planning has a significant correlation to the language acquisition by the students. Because the students’ age in between zero up to five years is the appropriate moment to acquire a certain language.

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN WEBSITE SEBAGAI MEDIA PROMOSI HOME INDUSTRY PADA TIM PENGGERAK PKK

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Realize Realize ◽  
Tukino Tukino
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
Household Products ◽  
Main Target ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Almost All

Home industry production results are only traditionally managed as promoted by word of mouth, and sometimes rely solely on the number of visitors to the sales place of the product, so the product takes a long time to increase sales volume. Now with capitalize a set of computers or smartphones that have been equipped with the Internet network can be used as a tool or media to publish all activities / promotional activities undertaken by the domestic business actors. In this activity, business activists will be given material about what the website, especially weblog and its benefits, how to make it, and how to use and manage it properly to support and improve the ability in promoting the product. This is not without reason, because almost all citizens who already have a household business is less understand the use of the internet let alone use the Internet media as one of the media to promote household products that they produce. The main target in the implementation of community service activities is to improve the ability of the community in the utilization of the Internet as a powerful medium as a partner of the government in moving the economic factors.

China's Practice of Implementing a 3G Mobile Telecommunications Standard

2009 ◽  
pp. 140-151
Author(s):  
Mingzhi Li ◽  
Kai Reimers
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Mobile Telecommunications ◽  
Economic Market ◽  
Political Market ◽  
Standardization Process ◽  
The Government ◽  
Telecommunications Market

This chapter analyses and evaluates the Chinese government’s 3G policy of supporting the creation and implementation of the country’s indigenous TD-SCDMA standard. On the supply side, the addition of a new standard has enriched choices available on the 3G mobile telecommunications market; however, on the demand side, the government had to force operators to adopt this standard due to their lack of interest in the new standard. Building on insights gained from North’s theory on the transaction costs of politics, the authors explain this standardization process as a result of interaction between the political market and the economic market which has ultimately been driven by ideology shifts that took place on multiple levels of China’s society in recent years. They contribute to the standardization literature by demonstrating how North’s theory can be used for integrating political and economic aspects in the analysis of standardization processes.

scholarly journals Taalgesindhede teenoor Afrikaans - ’n verkenning vanuit taalteoretiese perspektief

Literator ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Verhoef
Keyword(s):  
Language Attitudes ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
South African Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Problematic Issue ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Attitude Issue

Language attitudes towards Afrikaans - a reconnaisance from a theoretical point of viewThe main aim of this article is to investigate the language attitude issue from a viewpoint embedded in the theory of language planning. This study was initiated by the fact that, although the public debate regarding Afrikaans is articulated in a lively way, it seems as if it does not benefit the official status of the language. The statement that this hampering effect on Afrikaans is partially caused by negative language attitudes and a lack of language loyalty by the primary and secondary speech communities serves as point of departure for this article. By looking at language attitudes departing from a theoretical language planning framework, the investigator is enabled to derive scientifically clear conclusions regarding the language attitudes of speech communities. This article also discusses the different components of language attitudes in general and the methodology regarding the investigation of language attitudes. The second part of the article presents a brief discussion of language attitude studies undertaken in South Africa, especially those dealing with Afrikaans. The article concludes with the statement that language planners must give considerable attention to language attitudes and their influence on language planning efforts. When this problematic issue is ignored the outcome of language planning projects will show a low success rate. This is of particular importance for the survival of Afrikaans in the multilingual South African society.

Indigenous Education and Grassroots Language Planning in the USA

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa McCarty ◽  
Lucille Watahomigie
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Usa

What if the children "forget" the heritage language? This testimony by Dorothy Begay, a grandmother and long-time resident of the Navajo community of Rough Rock, Arizona cuts to the heart of language planning issues in Native American communities. Her statement also captures the enormity of the task at hand: With the penetration of English into public and private domains so seemingly complete, can a stable balance between the heritage language and English be achieved?

scholarly journals Visions and plans for regional development in Ireland

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-39
Author(s):  
James A. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Transformative Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
The Government ◽  
First Time

AbstractThe evolution of spatial planning in Ireland, and more widely, has been a complex process in which many narratives have been explored at different times. In 2018 the government published the National Planning Framework (NPF) to guide and support the achievement of a challenging and potentially transformative development strategy for Ireland 2040. The NPF is grounded in a vision that sets out to be disruptive of what has become embedded as the status quo in political, administrative and planning decision-making. While it is a very innovative addition to the portfolio of government policies and strategies, it is not the first time that radical visions have been proposed. This paper reviews previous visions and plans for regional development that have been proposed over the last seventy-five years, and critically compares and contrasts the approaches represented by the National Spatial Strategy (2002–20) and the NPF (2018–40), including the subsequent draft regional spatial and economic strategies. The implications of the population projections and the proposed settlement patterns for the achievement of the NPF objective of effective regional development, which is expressed as a regional parity target, are closely examined.

scholarly journals Language and Ideology in the Context of Language Policy of Albanian Language

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shkumbin Munishi Prishtina
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Language Standardization ◽  
Ideological Influence ◽  
Standardization Process ◽  
Language And Ideology

AbstractThis paper discusses the significantly tight relations which exist between ideology and language. It emphasizes that language and ideology are intertwined since ideology provides the framework within which a linguistic message is constructed and expressed. The influence of ideology is noted in language policy and language planning efforts since it enables actions taken by a certain social group to standardize a particular language. Another realm in which the influence of ideology becomes noticeable is the realm of discourse. Ideology is at best expressed through discourse structures. This type of ideological influence can be noticed in the case of Albanian language standardization process in which ideology served two functions: supporting the language policy and helping to build discourse rhetoric with which language policy was elaborated and promoted to the public within former Socialist Albania.

scholarly journals Educational Reforms and Language Planning Quandary in Algeria: An Illustration with Arabization

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-47
Author(s):  
Ikhlas Gherzouli
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Educational Reforms ◽  
Language Planning And Policy ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
The Impact

Summary The paper aims to present a critical review of language policy development in Algeria since its independence (1962) to present time. It takes the policy of Arabization, an important turning point in Algerian history that was troubled with serious problems, as an example of language planning in the country. Data was gathered from policy documents, laws, and newspaper articles. It was then coded into themes before it was analysed employing a documentary research method. To provide a methodical discussion, the first part of the paper explores language policy and planning in Algeria. The second part discusses the impact of Arabization on the country’s current state of policy development in light of the debates over the national educational reforms of 2003. The third part highlights the quandary that language planners face during the processes of language planning and policy making. Lastly, the paper concludes with an evaluation of the process of language policy development in the country. The paper argues that in order to foster sustainable multilingualism and achieve effective educational reforms, a keener recognition of Algerian linguistic diversity by the government is imperative.

scholarly journals Language Policy and the Use of English as the Medium of Instruction in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Saadia Mesti
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Regional Language ◽  
The Government ◽  
Pluralist Approach

Pakistan is linguistically a diverse country. The language policies of successive governments resemble a kind of educational apartheid, where local languages have continuously been neglected. The paper reviews the various language policies in Pakistan, and then, critically examines the existing language policy, and its implications on medium of instruction. The analysis suggests that linguistic cohesion with multi-linguistic policies are needed to adopt a multi-lingual approach in language planning policy in Pakistan. A more pluralist approach to language planning and policy (the mother tongue and regional language for local/regional communication, Urdu for national use, and English for national and international communication) may present a range of implementation challenges. The study is significant because it will shade light on the linguistic situation in Pakistan, and on the government language policy. It will also try to figure out how Pakistan can develop an ecologically valid model for bi/multiliteracy for such complex linguistic context.

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