Language Planning and Policy: Language Planning in Local Contexts

✍ Scribed by Anthony J. Liddicoat (editor); Richard B Baldauf Jr (editor)

• 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
The Contributors
Introduction
Language Planning in Local Contexts: Agents, Contexts and Interactions
Rearticulating the Case for Micro Language Planning in a Language Ecology Context
Language Communities
From Language to Ethnolect: Maltese to Maltraljan
Community-level Approaches in Language Planning: The Case of Hungarian in Australia
Micro-level Language Planning in Ireland
Preserving Dialects of an Endangered Language
The Ecological Impact of a Dictionary
Prestige From the Bottom Up: A Review of Language Planning in Guernsey
Language Planning in American Indian Pueblo Communities: Contemporary Challenges and Issues
Terminology Planning in Aboriginal Australia
Changing the Language Ecology of Kadazandusun: The Role of the Kadazandusun Language Foundation
Educational Contexts
Singaporean Educational Planning: Moving from the Macro to the Micro
‘Trajectories of Agency’ and Discursive Identities in Education: A Critical Site in Feminist Language Planning
University Students’ Attitudes Towards and Experiences of Bilingual Classrooms
Pacific Languages at the University of the South Pacific
Micro Language Planning for Student Support in a Pharmacy Faculty
Work Contexts
Negotiable Acceptability: Reflections on the Interactions between Language Professionals in Europe and NNS1 1 Scientists Wishing to Publish in English
On Language Management in Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic