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Yu Liang; Jining Chen; Deping Lu – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Public space plays a pivotal role in translating language policy into real-world practice. This study is grounded in empirical data collected through ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews from the Beijing Subway Line 1, which is typical of the normativity of a public space. The findings indicate that the linguistic landscape (LL)…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Policy, Transportation, Intervention
Humphries, Emma; Ayres-Bennett, Wendy – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
In which domains and for which language types does language legislation occur and how easy is it to identify it? The United Kingdom (UK) affords a good test bed to answer these questions since it is often considered to be lacking in strong public language policy due to, amongst other things, a lack of a coherent language policy across the UK and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Planning, Legislation, Welsh
Sanden, Guro R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the use of the two written Norwegian language standards, Nynorsk and Bokmål, by companies in Norway. By adopting a legal perspective on the language policy of Norway as stipulated by the Language Council of Norway (2005) and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church (2008), the paper investigates how 492 of the largest…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Variation, Written Language, Standards
Han, Yanmei; Wu, Xiaodan – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This research studies language policy, linguistic landscape and residents' perception of language use in Guangzhou, China, exploring the extent to which they are convergent with or divergent from one another. With the triad framework encompassing spatial practice, conceived space and lived space [Trumper-Hecht, N. (2010). Linguistic landscape in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Guidelines
Dovalil, Vít – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Language law is a tool used to manage problems of linguistic diversity in the EU. The paper analyzes the processes in which language law is found in the discursive practice of agents addressing the Court of Justice of the European Union with their language problems. The theoretical-methodological basis for the research is Language Management…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laws, Power Structure, Mobility
Love, Stephanie V. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Since Italy's unification in 1861, the establishment and diffusion of the standard Italian language at the expense of all other linguistic varieties has dominated language and education policy discourses. Today, as Italy has transformed from a country of mass "emigration" to a country of mass "immigration," the language…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Italian
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Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle; Ozolins, Uldis; Ramoniene, Meilute; Rannut, Mart – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
This monograph provides an overview of the language situation in the three Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It examines the recent change in language regimes that the Baltic States have deliberately brought about since the restitution of their independence, the nature of these changes, the opposition they have engendered and the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Official Languages, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries