Language Planning: From Practice to Theory

by Robert B Kaplan, Richard B Baldauf Jr

Overview

Reviewing the field of language policy and planning, this text sets out current practice and ways of thinking about language policy and planning, looking at methodology and the key areas of education, literacy and economics. Case studies of key language planning and policy issues are included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853593710
Publisher:	Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Publication date:	10/15/1997
Series:	Multilingual Matters , #108
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Robert B. Kaplan is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He has published numerous books and articles in refereed journals and written several special reports to government both in the US and elsewhere. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and is a member of the editorial board of the 1st and 2nd editions of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2002). Additionally, he edited the Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics. He has served as President of the National Association for Foreign Students Affairs, of TESOL, and of the American Association for Applied Linguistics.

Richard B. Baldauf, Jr is Associate Professor of TESOL in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and a member of the Executive of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). He has published numerous articles in refereed journals and books. He is co-editor of Language Planning and Education in Australasia and the South Pacific (Multilingual Matters, 1990), principal researcher and editor for the Viability of Low Candidature LOTE Courses in Universityies (DEET, 1995), co-author with Robert B. Kaplan of Language Planning from Practice to Theory (Multilingual Matters, 1997) and Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin (Kluwer, 2003), and co-author with Zhao Shouhui of Planning Chinese Characters: Revolution, Evolution or Reaction (Springer, 2007).

Table of Contents

Foreword
Part 1 Initial Concepts for Language Planning
1. A Contextual and Terminological Basis for Planning
2. A Framework for Planning: Who Does What to Whom?
3. Language Planning Goals
Part 2 Key Issues in Language Planning
4. Language Planning Process
5. Social Purpose Language Planning: Education and Literacy
6. The Economics of Language Planning
Part 3 Case Studies in Language Planning
7. Language Planning and Power
8. Bilingualism and Language Status
9. Specific Purpose Language Planning
Part 4 Towards a Theory of Language Planning
10. Conceptualising Language Planning: Key Elements
11. Conceptualising Language Planning: Key Issues
Appendix: Language Planning in National Contexts