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Heiko Motschenbacher – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This study demonstrates that linguistic landscape analysis is a powerful tool for assessing the effectiveness of a university language policy, as it provides "in situ" evidence for discursive patterns shaping language use in public space. It uses the official language policy of a Norwegian institution of higher education (Høgskulen på…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Official Languages, Educational Policy
Wang, Sixuan; Hatoss, Anikó – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper examines the impact of the local tea industry on the language ecology of the geographically remote Blang community in China. The paper takes an ecology perspective in language planning where all languages in the locality are given equal attention. These languages in the context of this paper include Blang, Putonghua, and English as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Ideology, Entrepreneurship
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
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
Kamwendo, Gregory Hankoni; Dlamini, Nosisi Percis – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
The paper discusses language planning at a cross-border university (a Zimbabwean university) that offers academic programmes to the Kingdom of Swaziland in the Southern African region. The paper is situated within the micro-level language planning framework, and discusses language decisions that govern three areas of university business, namely:…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Newspapers, Web Sites, Observation
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Jourdan, Christine – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
In this article, I analyze the reasons that have excluded Pijin, the lingua franca of Solomon Islands, South West Pacific, from being used as a medium of instruction, and why this may now become possible. Following a short sociolinguistic sketch, I present the colonial and post-colonial linguistic ideologies that shaped sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes, Sociolinguistics
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Saulière, Jérôme – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This article looks at France's Loi Toubon, which mandates the use of French in private companies, to illustrate how macro-level language planning reaches a dead end if it fails to consider local contexts and involve micro-level agents. The motivations, limitations and contradictions of France's language policy in relation to companies are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporations, Sociolinguistics, Language Usage
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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
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Abdelhay, Ashraf; Makoni, Busi; Makoni, Sinfree; Mugaddam, Abdel Rahim – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
This monograph describes the historiography of language ideologies that led to the politicisation of Arabic and the Arabicisation of politics in the Sudan, starting from British colonial rule until the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that was a precursor to the separation of the South as an independent state. The monograph shows that the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Historiography, Language Planning, Cartography
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Powell, Richard – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
Terminology is a central theme of debate about language shift in Malaysia's judicial system--sometimes seen as the last bastion of the colonial language. Advocates of more Malay in courtroom argument and professional practice often point to the Institute of Language and Literature's creation of thousands of terms to equip the national language for…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Vocabulary, Official Languages, Foreign Countries
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King, Kendall A.; Haboud, Marleen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2002
This monograph presents up-to-date information concerning language planning and policy in Ecuador, highlighting the country's cultural and linguistic diversity, historical context, current sociolinguistic situation and possible directions for the future. Taking into account Ecuador's particular sociopolitical conditions, it aims to provide a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Officials, Official Languages, Foreign Countries