ISBN:
9781847690630
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 286 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Language planning and policy
Parallel Title:
Print version Language Planning and Policy : Language Planning in Local Contexts
DDC:
306.44/9
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics
;
Language planning
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Language problems potentially exist at all levels of human activity, including the local contexts of communities and institutions. This volume examines the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world and dealing with a wide range of language planning issues
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; The Contributors; Introduction; Language Planning in Local Contexts: Agents, Contexts and Interactions; Rearticulating the Case for Micro Language Planning in a Language Ecology Context; Language Communities; From Language to Ethnolect: Maltese to Maltraljan; Community-level Approaches in Language Planning: The Case of Hungarian in Australia; Micro-level Language Planning in Ireland; Preserving Dialects of an Endangered Language; The Ecological Impact of a Dictionary; Prestige From the Bottom Up: A Review of Language Planning in Guernsey
Description / Table of Contents:
Language Planning in American Indian Pueblo Communities: Contemporary Challenges and IssuesTerminology Planning in Aboriginal Australia; Changing the Language Ecology of Kadazandusun: The Role of the Kadazandusun Language Foundation; Educational Contexts; Singaporean Educational Planning: Moving from the Macro to the Micro; 'Trajectories of Agency' and Discursive Identities in Education: A Critical Site in Feminist Language Planning; University Students' Attitudes Towards and Experiences of Bilingual Classrooms; Pacific Languages at the University of the South Pacific
Description / Table of Contents:
Micro Language Planning for Student Support in a Pharmacy FacultyWork Contexts; Negotiable Acceptability: Reflections on the Interactions between Language Professionals in Europe and NNS Scientists Wishing to Publish in English; On Language Management in Multinational Companies in the Czech Republic
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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