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Sanden, Guro R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the use of the two written Norwegian language standards, Nynorsk and BokmÃ¥l, by companies in Norway. By adopting a legal perspective on the language policy of Norway as stipulated by the Language Council of Norway (2005) and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church (2008), the paper investigates how 492 of the largest…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Variation, Written Language, Standards
Premaratne, Dilhara D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In 2009, two significant script policy measures were adopted by Japan and the People's Republic of China (China hereafter), both as a response to national language needs triggered by globalisation. However, the measures chosen by the two countries were very different, Japan choosing to increase and China choosing to standardise the Chinese…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Civil Rights, Foreign Countries, Orthographic Symbols
Diallo, Ibrahima – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2012
Traditional African literacy practices have often been ignored in the wake of European colonialism and the educational policies of colonial governments. Nonetheless, literacy had been established in parts of Africa following the introduction of Islam. This paper will examine the developments of literacy in pre-colonial West Africa. In this region,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, African Languages, Language Planning, Islam
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
Premaratne, Dilhara D. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
Information and communication technology appears to have had a profound impact on language use in Japan. An important issue arising from this is said to be the increase in the use of Chinese characters (kanji) outside the official standard. This development has made a re-appraisal of the existing script policy necessary in order to accommodate the…
Descriptors: Romanization, Foreign Countries, Chinese, Information Technology
Mostari, Hind Amel – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
When Algeria opened its markets to foreign investment starting from the early 2000s, a technological boom occurred, including the expansion of mobile phone use. New technologies have had a considerable impact on the Algerian diglossic situation, in recent decades, and have contributed in the democratisation of the local dialects, which are being…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Foreign Countries
Watanabe, Noriko – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
This paper discusses the collision between government guidelines on "kanji" use in public documents and Japanese naming practice that places significance on written forms. The tension between the state's need to control the legibility of its texts through allowable "kanji" character lists collides with people's rights and desires to name their own…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Personality, Court Litigation, Japanese
Nekvapil, Jiri; Sherman, Tamah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
This article is devoted to the linguistic, communicative and sociocultural situation in branches of multinational companies located in the Czech Republic and Hungary. There are typically several languages used in these branches. In addition to the local languages, there are the languages of the parent companies--most commonly English or German,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Communication Problems, Interpersonal Communication, Foreign Countries
Zhao, Shouhui; Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
As Chinese characters ("hanzi") have three aspects--as a technical writing system, an aesthetic visual art (Chinese calligraphy), and a highly-charged cultural symbolic system--changing them is a complex process. In the 1950s when language planning campaigns were launched to modernise Chinese through "hanzi" standardisation,…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Language Planning, Handwriting, Written Language
Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D.; Wee, Lionel – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2007
Singapore's annual Speak Mandarin Campaign has been largely successful in shifting the language patterns of its Chinese citizens from Chinese dialects to Mandarin in all sectors. However, there has been a notable exception: the effort to have Chinese Singaporeans give their children Mandarin names, rather than dialect ones. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese

Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
Discusses the impact of the development of a dictionary of Jersey Norman French. The dictionary has created a perception among speakers of Jersey French that they did not know the language. This perception appears to be the result of the ecological change that the dictionary produced by repositioning the language from an oral habitat to a written…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, French, Language Planning
Zhao, Shouhui – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
After a century of effort, directed at modernising Chinese script, it is still the case that Chinese characters (henceforth "hanzi") remain a deficient communication system both for human use and for mechanical application. In some respects, the reform of Chinese "hanzi" has been a very political process, driven ultimately by…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Romanization, Ideology, Mandarin Chinese
Dunn, Michael – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
The Touo language is a non-Austronesian language spoken on Rendova Island (Western Province, Solomon Islands). First language speakers of Touo are typically multilingual, and are likely to speak other (Austronesian) vernaculars, as well as Solomon Island Pijin and English. There is no institutional support of literacy in Touo: schools function in…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Multilingualism, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Paviour-Smith, Martin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
This paper reports on two critical incidents in the progress towards implementing a vernacular language programme in the village school at Aulua, Malakula, in Vanuatu. In stage one of the fieldwork, (2000-1) an orthography was created by a committee. An element of the second stage of the project (2004-5) was a workshop to create the primers and…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Workshops