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Anne Holmen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
For many years Denmark has had a reputation for being laissez-faire in language matters. There is no explicit language legislation, and the Danish Language Council has mainly descriptive functions. However, there is a powerful standard language ideology, and in other societal domains such as education or immigration, language is heavily regulated.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Language Planning, Federal Legislation
Elen Bonner; Cynog Prys; Rhian Hodges; Siwan Mitchelmore – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper seeks to explain the migration decisions of minority language speakers by investigating motivating factors. Viewed through a language planning lens, the study pushes the parameters of some of the discipline's more recent agency concepts within the context of migration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 60 Welsh speakers…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Planning, Language Minorities, Decision Making
Fan Fang; Xinxin Yao – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
Amidst the rapid processes of industrialization and globalization, the interplay between minority and majority languages has garnered increasing attention, highlighting concerns surrounding linguistic diversity and the efficacious enactment of language policies. This study delves into the intricacies of language planning within the familial…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Hui Wang; Anikó Hatoss – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
The study of language maintenance and shift (LMS) has attracted a large body of empirical work in language policy and planning (LPP) contexts, including allochthonous (immigrant) and autochthonous (indigenous) languages. However, some critical ontological questions that relate to the scope and terminology of language maintenance studies remain…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Language Skill Attrition
Landqvist, Mats; Spetz, Jennie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article gives a presentation of the Swedish Language act and its application and reception by the public. Ten years have passed since its introduction, and for this reason a study was conducted by the Swedish Language council about what kind of issues were brought to governmental and local authorities by the public. By the collection of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Federal Legislation, Language Minorities
Krouglov, Alex – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
The article aims to provide a historical overview of language planning and policy in Russia and to establish and analyse the overarching approaches in status, acquisition, and corpus planning. The provided examples and analysis of various stages reinforce the argument that the development of language policy and planning was consistent with the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Policy Formation, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
Sharma, Abhimanyu – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
This paper examines language policies in Northern Ireland vis-à-vis the Irish language. Whilst the devolution of powers has benefitted Welsh and Scottish Gaelic through the creation of separate language acts dedicated to them, there is no such act for Irish. Taking this policy discrepancy as its point of departure, this paper investigates how the…
Descriptors: Irish, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Peace
Grey, Alexandra – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
This polity study is about the language policy situation in the People's Republic of China (China) with a focus on one official minority language, Zhuang. The paper offers an examination of the language policy and planning (LPP) framework nationally as it relates to official minority languages, and regionally as it relates to the Zhuang minority…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Planning, Languages, Foreign Countries
De Meulder, Maartje – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
Through the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act, British Sign Language (BSL) was given legal status in Scotland. The main motives for the Act were a desire to put BSL on a similar footing with Gaelic and the fact that in Scotland, BSL signers are the only group whose first language is not English who must rely on disability discrimination…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Planning, Sign Language, Language Minorities
Pietikäinen, Sari; Compton, Sarah E.; Dlaske, Kati – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Recent demand within the academy for language research that bridges different stakeholders renders the social relevance of research a factor in the academic competition for research funds [Curry, M. J., & Lillis, T. (2013). "Introduction to the thematic issue: Participating in academic publishing--consequences of linguistic policies and…
Descriptors: Language Research, Multilingualism, Language Planning, Public Policy
Albury, Nathan John – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Since the second half of the twentieth century, post-colonial governments have commonly sought to revitalize the indigenous languages their imperialist predecessors hoped to eradicate. Although the impetus to revitalize is shared, the question of excluding or including the non-indigenous majority in the revitalization process, and encouraging them…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Planning, Language Maintenance, Public Policy
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Bastardas-Boada, Albert – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
One of the dangers that we should be aware of when we study issues of language policy and planning is the fragmentary perspective by which they can be approached. Reality, by contrast, is interrelated and overlapping. This is why a complexity perspective stresses the importance of studying the contexts of phenomena, that is to say, their external…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Policy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Sociolinguistics
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González Núñez, Gabriel – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
Europe as a multilingual continent hosts three main types of languages: dominant languages, autochthonous minority languages, and new minority languages. From a policy standpoint, planning for speakers of these languages and their needs become a complex matter in which many actors with different interests are involved. Of the many issues which…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Local Government, Translation
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Draper, John – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
Given the recent consideration by the Thai government of a national language policy, this article considers the status of Thailand's treaty obligations regarding linguistic human rights in education. It presents a general background, a brief linguistic profile of Thailand, a concise summary of the concept and importance of linguicide, and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Profiles, Language Planning
Smith-Christmas, Cassie; Armstrong, Timothy Currie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
Heritage learners of minority languages can play a lynchpin role in reversing language shift (RLS) in their families; however, in order to enact this role, they must first overcome certain barriers to re-integrate the minority language into the home domain. Using a combination of conversation and narrative analysis methods, we demonstrate how both…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Indo European Languages, Language Minorities
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