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Kristof Savski – Language Policy, 2024
This article considers the role that the examination of text plays in empirical language policy research. It begins by examining the state-of-the-art in language policy, observing that a core focus on action represents a shared characteristic of the various strands of discursive and ethnographic research over the last two decades. That is, the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Discourse Analysis, Policy Analysis, Ethnography
Karlsson, Susanna; Karlsson, Tom S. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article examines Language Policy documents within higher education institutions in Sweden. Its main focus is on how national language policies and policies for internationalization of the higher education are reinterpreted as local language policy. The analysis of ideologies surrounding the prescribed language(s) in meetings of decision…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Swedish

Griggs, Karen – Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1996
Reviews recent studies of legal discourse and nonacademic writing and presents the results of a historical case study on an environmental public policy. Finds that a dynamic discourse community changed writing roles among government employees, lay members of the audience, and water pollution control board members. States that controversial…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discourse Communities, Language Role, Legal Problems
Ingram, D. E. – 1991
A discussion of the relationship between public policy on languages and national economic development focuses on formulation of policy, especially in the case of Australia. It begins with a brief history of language policy-making in that country since the 1960s, including early proposals and a 1990 report that has been adopted as a basis for…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Language Role
Ozolins, Uldis – 1991
This research report is intended to provide the National Languages Institute of Australia (NLIA) with an overview of the issues demanding attention in the fields of interpreting and translating. While interpreting and translating have received attention in major language policy reports, subsequent language policy implementation has rarely…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Role

Aggarwal, Kailash S. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1997
Argues that two influential studies of multilingualism in India are misleading in that they claim India's situation is unique and cherish this uniqueness as a value. It is proposed instead that this sociolinguistic diversity is inherently conflict-producing and leads to loss of "weak" languages, similar to documented situations in other…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Language Planning
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – 1990
The following similarities exist between the language situations of the United States and Australia: (1) both countries have developed and prospered through overseas immigration; (2) until recently, neither country has had a "de jure" official language, only a "de facto" one built around English; (3) in both countries…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Language Planning

Mazama, Ama – Journal of Black Studies, 1994
Language planners assert that languages are tools that can be transformed into resources and managed by states through elaboration of language policies to be carried out through language planning. Language planning is explored from the Afrocentric point of view, considering it as part of pro-Western propaganda. (SLD)
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Studies, Educational Policy, Ideology
Lo Bianco, Joseph – 1993
A discussion of language policy in Australia chronicles the history and context of policy formation and looks at the role of the National Languages and Literacy Institute. The paper first examines the phases and processes of both explicit and unofficial policy-making on language issues in Australia, highlighting the role that language…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Judd, Elliot L. – 1983
Teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) is a political act, and those who are engaged in teaching English to non- or limited-English speakers are directly or indirectly implementing a language policy that promotes a form of language change in students. This means that TESOL teachers are faced with certain moral dilemmas whose…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Ideology, Language Role
Spoonley, Paul – 1981
New Zealand shares with other Southeast Asian nations two sets of problems which stem from the presence of several distinct communities in one geographical/political area: the first relates to treatment of linguistic minorities, indigenous and immigrant; the second is that of social or regional dialects which, while not totally distinct from an…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Fusarelli, Lance; Sanders, Marla – Journal of School Public Relations, 2005
This article examines the language games played by superintendents as they work with school boards and community activists to craft school policy. We begin by examining the role of language in problem definition and the agenda-setting process. We then examine how political culture and the media affect problem definition. We argue that school…
Descriptors: Language Role, Public Relations, Agenda Setting, School Policy

Castejon, Adriana Boogerman – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1997
Two policy documents supporting education for ethnolinguistic or socioeconomic minorities in Catalonia are examined, identifying underlying assumptions and the views of cultural diversity implicit in them. It is concluded that the policy is formulated vaguely, incorporates contradictory statements, and neglects learners' first languages. Further…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Mann, Charles C. – 1990
A discussion of the choice of official languages in Nigeria first gives an overview of the current language situation in Nigeria, particularly of indigenous language usage, sketches the history of English, French, and Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin (ANP) both before and after independence, outlines the main proposals for language planning, and draws some…
Descriptors: African Languages, Colonialism, English, Foreign Countries
Sirles, Craig – 1986
A set of procedures for evaluating language planning and policy is proposed. The method, developed to assess language policy implementation in Morocco since independence in 1956, is suggested as a diagnostic device to assist specialists in evaluating previously implemented plans and those in progress. It isolates the linguistic and extralinguistic…
Descriptors: Culture Conflict, Demography, Educational Planning, Evaluation Criteria
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