This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the epistemological and theoretical foundations that engendered and sustain the field, drawing on insights and approaches from anthropology, linguistics, economics, political science, and education to create an accessible and inter-disciplinary overview of LPP as a coherent discipline. Throughout the book, the authors address LPP from different perspectives, exploring the interface between planning in theory and its practical problems in implementation. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in LPP in particular, and educational, social, and public policy more broadly.
Author(s): Michele Gazzola, Federico Gobbo, David Cassels Johnson, Jorge Antonio Leoni de León
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 144
City: Cham
Contents
List of Figures
1 Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning: Introduction
1 An Interdisciplinary Field of Research
2 Language Policy and Language Planning
3 Origins and Target Audience of the Book
References
2 Critical Empirical Approaches in Language Policy and Planning
1 Introduction
2 Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Planning
3 Expanding Frameworks and Emphases
4 Critical Language Policy
5 Ethnography and Discourse Analysis
6 Current Debates
6.1 Structure and Agency
6.2 Macro-Micro Dialectic
6.3 Researcher Positionality
7 Critical Empirical Approaches and Social Justice: Concluding Thoughts
References
3 Language Policy as Public Policy
1 Introduction
2 Public Policy and Language Practices
3 The Policy Cycle Model
3.1 Emergence of a Language Issue
3.2 Agenda-Setting
3.3 Policy Formulation and Adoption
3.4 Implementation
3.5 Evaluation
4 Language Policy Levels and Public Policy Types
5 Conclusions
References
4 Corpus at the Core: The Epistemology of Language Planning
1 Introduction
2 Some Cats Are Grey in the Dark: The Place of Language in Policy and Planning
3 Back to Fundamentals: Avoiding the Tragedy of Inductivism
4 A Procedure to Tame the Taxonomic Fury
5 Two Contact Languages: Esperanto and Hebrew (Israeli) in Comparison
6 Conclusion
References
5 The Relationship Between Language Policy and Planning, Theoretical Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
1 Introduction
2 Linguistics and the Language Problem in the Twenty-First Century
3 Technology and Language
4 Language Use and Web Products
5 For Language Awareness: Conclusions
References
6 Conclusions
References
Index
