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O'Donnell, Paul E. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1996
Catalan, although a minority language within Spain, enjoys great prestige within Catalonia. This article attempts to explain how conflicts in Europe, national and Catalan election politics, educational policies, and the "cold war" waged against the Catalan government together affected a change in public opinion toward a reluctance to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
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Dua, Hans Raj – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1996
Examines the different forms of language conflicts, which have been characterized on the basis of four features: language as symbol, as instrumentality, as resource, and as power. It is suggested that there is a need for the development of an explanatory model of language conflicts for viable language policies. (29 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Ethnic Groups, Language Attitudes, Language Planning
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de Klerk, Vivian; Barkhuizen, Gary P. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1998
Reports attitudes toward a 1994 South Africa language policy that declared 11 official languages. The decision had particular significance for the South African national defense force (SANDF). Special focus is on language practices at the Sixth South African Infantry Battalion in Eastern Cape Province. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Afrikaans, Armed Forces, English, Language Attitudes
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de V. Cluver, August – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991
Discusses the independent Namibian government's goal of making English (currently the mother tongue of less than 5 percent of the population) the official language to unite various race and speech communities into one national entity, and proposes a systems approach to enable language planners to see the relationships between plans and other…
Descriptors: Afrikaans, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
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Djite, Paulin G. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1988
In the Ivory Coast, the official standard French has not been established as the language of the masses and is threatened by Dyula and a Popular French, two lingua francas that have potential as national languages even though the populations do not seem supportive of new language policy. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Dialects, Dyula, Foreign Countries, French
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Nino-Murcia, Mercedes – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1997
Notes that a group of mestizo intellectuals in Peru claims that "Qhpaj'simi" is the Quechua used by the ancient Inca nobility and is the purest form of Quechua. Explains that a social hierarchy has arisen with the use of this "imperial language" demarcating its users from the common people and that these purist attitudes play a…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Attitudes
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Chen, Ping – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1996
Analyzes the major linguistic and sociopolitical factors responsible for the underdevelopment of written languages based on non-Mandarin dialects. Explores language planning efforts in Taiwan to standardize a written language based upon the local dominant dialect. Argues that the social and political costs of the success of dialect writings may be…
Descriptors: Chinese, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Planning
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D'souza,Jean – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1996
Examines creativity in Indian English and Singapore English. Highlights the differences between linguistic creativity and literary creativity in the two varieties and suggests that language planning policy and practice in the two countries are responsible for the differences found there. Implications for language planning are explored. (27…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
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Rahman, Tariq – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1996
Discusses how British language policies in India during the 18th and 19th centuries were characterized by a controversy between Anglicists and Orientalists. A study of the controversy shows a close relationship between language policies and political power. (36 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Courts, Educational Policy
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Hornberger, Nancy H. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1988
Considers the status and corpus planning aspects of three of Peru's Quechua policies in light of the language planning orientations of language-as-problem, language-as-right, and language-as-resource. Current Quechua/Spanish bilingual education recognizes the rights of Quechua speakers and the role of the language as a national resource.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
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Laitin, David; Mensah, Edward – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991
Analysis of survey responses regarding Ghanaians' preferred language policy indicated that a "3+1" language policy, involving individuals' learning of a national, international, and local language, constitutes an equilibrium outcome, although some minority-language groups would need to learn a fourth language if their vernacular is…
Descriptors: African Languages, Akan, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Jacobs, Dirk – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1997
Describes switch from secrecy in the plan to realign the inconsistent system of orthography in the Dutch language by the Dutch and Belgian governments to an emotional public controversy. Explores how this struggle turned out to be less a debate on suitable spelling changes than an issue about how legitimate spelling reforms were to be reached and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decision Making, Dutch, Foreign Countries
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Fakuade, Gbenga – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1989
A Federal Government Policy in Nigeria aimed at unifying the country through the use of three major languages (Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo) has been inhibited because there are no teachers. Resistance from speakers of other languages to the enforced learning of one of the major languages also seems likely. Maintenance of English is suggested as the…
Descriptors: English, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries, Hausa
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Peddie, Roger A. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991
Although language policy in New Zealand is emerging piecemeal, without any clear central planning and without much of the data needed for sound policy development, political pressure from indigenous, community, and other language interest groups is interacting positively with government values and may still lead to a coherent national policy. (39…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
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Schlyter, Birgit N. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1998
Examines ongoing language reform work in Uzbekistan to see what principles and attitudes Uzbek language policy is based on and what impact it may have on the language situation in the country as a whole. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Interference (Language)
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