Body of practices intended to cause a desired change in language
Language policy is both an interdisciplinary academic field[1] and implementation of ideas about language use.[2]
Some scholars such as Joshua Fishman and Ofelia García consider it as part of sociolinguistics. On the other hand, other scholars such as Bernard Spolsky, Robert B. Kaplan and Joseph Lo Bianco argue that language policy is a branch of applied linguistics.
As a field, language policy is also known as language planning or language policy and planning,[1] and is related to other fields such as language ideology, language revitalization, and language education, among others.
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For example:
Christian, Donna (1999). "Looking at Federal Education Legislation From a Language Policy/Planning Perspective". In Huebner, Thom; Davis, Kathryn Anne; Lo Bianco, Joseph (eds.). Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA. Studies in Bilingualism 16. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. p. 117. ISBN 9789027241238. Retrieved 6 January 2024. Language policy can be defined as the combination of official decisions and prevailing public practices related to language education and use.
Languagepolicy is both an interdisciplinary academic field and implementation of ideas about language use. Some scholars such as Joshua Fishman and Ofelia...
languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages,...
liberty of language for all citizens of the Republic; this policy was subsequently abandoned in favour of the imposition of a common language which was...
Languagepolicy in Ukraine is based on its Constitution, international treaties and on domestic legislation. According to article 10 of the Constitution...
and media. That is despite the government decision to implement a languagepolicy of ignoring French after gaining independence, for the sake of creating...
Pashto were the only languages promoted by the government. Though policy has since changed, it has still harmed many minority languages of the country. The...
are consistently reported as Persian, Azeri and Kurdish. The current languagepolicy of Iran is addressed in Chapter Two of the Constitution of the Islamic...
In Uganda the most spoken language in the capital city is Luganda, followed by English (also the official language since 1962), as all schools in Uganda...
vocabulary is also deeply conservative, with the country's language regulator maintaining an active policy of coining terms based on older Icelandic words rather...
understanding of Hebrew. Several laws determine the official status of languages and languagepolicy in Israel. This confusing situation has led to several appeals...
anthem, "Vårt land", which was only later translated to Finnish. Within languagepolicy making in Finland, Taxell's paradox refers to the notion that monolingual...
recognizes only a single national language, and indigenous languages are recognized at the regional level, although policies vary from one region to another...
Vietnamese language was officially described as the National Language. Ethnolect Indigenous languageLanguagepolicy Regional language Standard language Official...
Telugu languagepolicy is a policy issue in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, with 84 percent of the population reporting Telugu as their...
from 1939 to 1975, policies were implemented in an attempt to increase the dominance of the Spanish language over the other languages of Spain. Franco's...
diversity, the languagepolicy in Singapore aims at cultivating amongst its citizens a bilingual proficiency in the English language and a mother tongue...
Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians...
Constitution of Latvia form the foundation for languagepolicy in Latvia, declaring Latvian to be the official state language and affirming the rights of ethnic minorities...
any particular language and that the medium of instruction will not be shifted from English to any regional language. The languagepolicy in NEP is a broad...
Corporate languagepolicy is a broad category covering the internal governance and management of language in private organisations. This differs from...
Singapore's bilingual language education policy promotes a dual-language learning system. Learning a second language has been compulsory in primary schools...
natives of the colonies. In 1696 Charles II reversed that policy and banned the use of any languages other than Spanish throughout New Spain. Beginning in...
Official Language, Government of India. Retrieved 1 July 2015. "THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGEPOLICY OF THE UNION | Department of Official Language | Ministry...
provincial government. It is the central legislative piece in Quebec's languagepolicy, and one of the three statutory documents Quebec society bases its...
demotion of prior local languages into "dialects" across cultural and educational landscapes resulted in a pushback of the policy and eventually rescinded...
counter expansion of Prussia. However, after the Belgian Revolution, languagepolicy changed in favor of German while French was maintained. Further, by...
between 1938 and 1946, inaugurated the formal policy of promoting Pashto as Afghanistan's national language, leading to the commission and publication of...
to develop their languages and to establish first language primary education systems. This is a marked change to the languagepolicies of previous governments...
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