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Direct linkBylin, Maria; Tingsell, Sofia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
The study compares the uses of the native-speaker concept as a legitimizing resource in language-standard ideologies and normative discourse in five languages of European origin. Much research and international discussion has focused on the native speaker of English, a symbolically international language. We aim to show how the native-speaker…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Native Speakers, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
Simpson, Jane; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
The diversity of language in Australia in pre-invasion times is well attested, with at least 300 distinct languages being spoken along with many dialects. At that time, many Indigenous people were multilingual, often speaking at least four languages. Today many of these languages have been lost, with fewer than 15 being learned by children as a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Nonstandard Dialects, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
Kaplan, Robert B. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Language policy is a mechanism determining the uses of language generally; here it examines the role of the English language in the emerging USA. Inspired by Spanish riches deriving from the "New World" during the sixteenth century, the first English people to settle permanently in North America hoped for similar riches. In North…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Multilingualism, North American English, Language Planning
Peer reviewedPoon, Anita Y. K. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2010
This monograph provides an overview of the language situation in Hong Kong from a historical perspective. Hong Kong has evolved in the past 167 years from a small fishing port to an international financial centre which forms part of a financial network hailed by "Time Magazine" as Ny.Lon.Kong (i.e. New York-London-Hong Kong). Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
Makoni, Busi; Makoni, Sinfree; Mashiri, Pedzisai – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
Studies of African naming practices focus almost exclusively on the meanings and etymology of names and details about the circumstances surrounding how such names are assigned. Such research has not examined the implications naming has for language planning, ideologies of language, and language shift. Focusing on names and naming practices in…
Descriptors: African Languages, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Etymology
Winter, Jo; Pauwels, Anne – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
Viewing education as a complex site for endorsing and contesting knowledges and practices we explore its critical roles in feminist language planning. Many types of language planning have relied heavily on education for the implementation and spread of the particular reform agenda largely reliant on discourses of compulsory obligation (e.g.…
Descriptors: Feminism, Language Planning, Social Action, Educational Change
