Language Planning and Policy: Language Planning in Local Contexts

✍ Scribed by Anthony J. Liddicoat, Richard Baldauf Jr., B

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Language problems potentially exist at all levels of human activity, including the local contexts of communities and institutions. This volume examines the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world and dealing with a wide range of language planning issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
The Contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 11
Language Planning in Local Contexts: Agents, Contexts and Interactions......Page 13
Rearticulating the Case for Micro Language Planning in a Language Ecology Context......Page 28
Language Communities......Page 53
From Language to Ethnolect: Maltese to Maltraljan......Page 55
Community-level Approaches in Language Planning: The Case of Hungarian in Australia......Page 65
Micro-level Language Planning in Ireland......Page 85
Preserving Dialects of an Endangered Language......Page 105
The Ecological Impact of a Dictionary......Page 123
Prestige From the Bottom Up: A Review of Language Planning in Guernsey......Page 130
Language Planning in American Indian Pueblo Communities: Contemporary Challenges and Issues......Page 149
Terminology Planning in Aboriginal Australia......Page 166
Changing the Language Ecology of Kadazandusun: The Role of the Kadazandusun Language Foundation......Page 181
Educational Contexts......Page 191
Singaporean Educational Planning: Moving from the Macro to the Micro......Page 193
‘Trajectories of Agency’ and Discursive Identities in Education: A Critical Site in Feminist Language Planning......Page 209
University Students’ Attitudes Towards and Experiences of Bilingual Classrooms......Page 227
Pacific Languages at the University of the South Pacific......Page 244
Micro Language Planning for Student Support in a Pharmacy Faculty......Page 250
Work Contexts......Page 263
Negotiable Acceptability: Reflections on the Interactions between Language Professionals in Europe and NNS Scientists Wishing to Publish in English......Page 265
On Language Management in Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic......Page 278