M. Obaidul Hamid, University of Queensland, Australia:
What is also striking among many other achievements of the book is its accessibility. If the author’s aim was to reach a wider audience beyond the language policy and education community, he has succeeded. His reader-supportive approach to academic language and writing is indeed commendable. The book deserves to be read by people with an interest in languages, language problems and language and speech communities.
Obaidul Hamid, University of Queensland, Australia:
What is also striking among many other achievements of the book is its accessibility. If the author’s aim was to reach a wider audience beyond the language policy and education community, he has succeeded. His reader-supportive approach to academic language and writing is indeed commendable. The book deserves to be read by people with an interest in languages, language problems and language and speech communities.
Haicui Zheng, Inner Mongolia University, Mongolia:
Petrovic approaches the issue of language policy in education from a political and philosophical perspective, addressing the relationship between language and identity and well as that of liberalism and language policy. Consequently, it is oriented and interesting to a wide readership.
Prof. Terrence G. Wiley, President, Center for Applied Linguistics and Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, USA:
This volume provides a measured, philosophical and critical analysis of some of the major themes in the field of language policy today. With emphasis on status and acquisition planning, it offers an important and thoughtful treatment of issues related to linguistics human rights, while considering the problematic relationship between language and identity, as well as issues related to language policy in education. This volume will be of interest to scholars and serious students in the field, but it is clearly written and accessible for those newer to the field.
Dr. Thomas Ricento, University of Calgary, Canada:
In this provocative book, John Petrovic offers a trenchant critique of current approaches to language policy that tend to be based on a linguistics of community rather than a linguistics of contact. Readers of this book may find plenty to disagree with, but few book-length treatments of language policy are as thorough and probing as this one in dealing with fundamental questions of politics, language, democracy, identity, and education.
Christopher Stroud, University of Western Cape, South Africa:
The author presents an imposing body of carefully crafted critique in favor of a post-liberal politics of language. This volume must become an ultimate reference for anybody wanting to go beyond what liberal thought can offer a political philosophy of language.
