Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2012· Book chapter
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy
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Short summary
This handbook is the first comprehensive survey of language policy as a discipline, covering practices, beliefs, and management strategies across various global contexts.
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Key points
- The handbook is the first to cover language policy as a whole discipline.
- It surveys language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods for language management.
- Content includes historical background, indigenous/endangered languages, and impacts of global forces like migration and globalization.
- It also evaluates language management agencies, analyzes language activism, and looks at language cultivation, including writing system reform.
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Abstract
Over the last 50 years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It provides a historical background which traces the development of classical language planning, describes activities associated with indigenous and endangered languages, and contains chapters on imperialism, colonialism, effects of migration and globalization, and educational policy. It also evaluates language management agencies, analyzes language activism and looks at language cultivation (including reform of writing systems, orthography and modernized terminology). The definitive guide to the subject, it will be welcomed by students, researchers and language professionals in linguistics, education and politics.
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