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Easlick, Kathleen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
This paper presents a thematic analysis of public sector discourse on the values assigned to regional minority and community languages within the UK and Finland. This paper draws from semi-structured interviews conducted in Manchester, Cardiff, Helsinki, and Rovaniemi. Two key themes emerged from the interview data: "Language as a Resource…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Social Integration, Language Role
Holmes, Luke – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Drawing on the ethico-political framework of hospitality, this paper investigates the communicative practices of three administrative support staff as they attempt to manage the twin challenges of working in adherence to state and institutional language policies while communicating ethically in an internationalising workplace. Academic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Political Attitudes, Multilingualism, Politics of Education
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
Language planning and policy has evolved from considering policy as one of states' affairs at its early stages to how policy actors exercise their agency to appropriate and enact policy in micro and local contexts. Ethnography of language policy is predominantly used today to explore why policies are enacted in a certain way and not otherwise,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Policy Analysis, Ethnography, Social Theories
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
Song, Jae Jung – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This monograph discusses South Korea's language situation in a language policy and planning context. This monograph consists of four parts. Part 1 presents a genetic, typological and sociolinguistic description of South Korea's national language, and an overview of minority languages, including English as well as other languages, recently…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Written Language, Sociolinguistics, Official Languages
Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
The proliferation of media and their associated platforms is creating radical changes in the way we interact with the world. Social media in particular have increased the manner of communication between people, with on-demand access to content any time, anywhere. With virtual communities being established online through a growing range of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Language Minorities, Mass Media
Chiatoh, Blasius Agha-ah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
Although multilingualism is the norm in Africa the degree of linguistic complexity varies from one specific national context to another. While some countries are highly multilingual, others have fairly few languages. Similarly, whereas in some countries a good number of languages enjoy majority status; in others, we have a myriad of primarily…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Native Language, Native Language Instruction, Multilingualism
McDermott, Philip – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
This article investigates the position of migrant languages in Northern Ireland's two largest cities, Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. The paper comments on how deliberations around public policy objectives in a post-conflict era have led to a broader understanding of cultural identity and consequently to an "opening-up" of urban spaces…
Descriptors: Migrants, Museums, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities
Sperling, Jessica – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
Language access mandates in the USA, which require that governmental services be provided in any needed language, have been largely ignored since their first enacting. However, the past decade has seen an increase in the number of national, state, and local efforts to accommodate limited English-proficient individuals. This article provides an…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Multilingualism, Immigrants, Second Languages
Trudell, Barbara – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
Appropriate models for understanding the dynamics of language use in society are essential to effective language policy and planning. Particularly in African contexts, such models must speak to the unique features of multilingual environments, and they must account for the differences in prestige and value which occur between languages in these…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Citizenship, Language Minorities, Multilingualism
de Bres, Julia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
The attitudes and behaviours of majority language speakers have an important impact on minority languages, and it has been claimed that the long-term success of minority language initiatives may only be achievable if some degree of favourable opinion, or "tolerability", of these initiatives is secured among majority language speakers.…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Immersion Programs, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Horner, Kristine; Weber, Jean Jacques – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
This monograph describes the overall language situation in Luxembourg, a highly multilingual country in Western Europe, from a language policy and planning perspective. The first part discusses the social and historical contexts, including major societal changes and uncertainties about the future, which are bound up with Europeanisation and the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Ideology, Identification
Gottlieb, Nanette – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2008
This monograph discusses the language situation in Japan, with an emphasis on language planning and policy. Japan has long considered itself to be a monoethnic and therefore monolingual society, despite the existence of substantial old-comer ethnic minorities, and this--with the instrumental exception of English--has been reflected in its language…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Official Languages, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
Hatoss, Aniko – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
This paper provides an example of micro-planning which involves community, government and non-government organisations both in the context of immigrants' source and host countries. The community in question is the Hungarian diaspora in Australia. The language planning activities are aimed at maintaining an immigrant heritage language and identity.…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Immigrants
Lasimbang, Rita; Kinajil, Trixie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
In 1995, the Kadazandusun language was created as a standard form of all the Dusunic group of languages so that it might be taught in schools as a language subject. In the planning of Kadazandusun, terminology building involves both the creation of new terms that appropriate present-day categories and artefacts, and the selection of suitable…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities
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