Can language be planned?: Sociolinguistic theory and practice for developing nations

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Introduction:Language planning as an element in modernization /Joan Rubin and Björn H. Jernudd --[1.]The motivation and rationalization for language policy:The impact of nationalism on language planning: some comparisons between early twentieth-century Europe and more recent years in South and Southeast Asia /Joshua A. Fishman --Language as an aid and barrier to involvement in the national system /Herbert C. Kelman --Religion, language, and political mobilization /Jyotirindra Das Gupta --[2.]Case studies of language planning:Successes and failures in the movement for the restoration of Irish /John Macnamara --Spelling reform -Israel 1968 /Chaim Rabin --Language-planning processes and the language-policy survey in the Philippines /Bonifacio P. Sibayan --Some factors influencing language policies in Eastern Africa /Wilfred H. Whiteley --Language reform and social modernization in Turkey /Charles F. Gallagher --Some planning processes in the development of the Indonesian-Malay language /S. Takdir Alisjahbana --The development of Bengali since the establishment of Pakistan /Muhammad Abdul Hai --[3.]A general approach to language planning:Towards a theory of language planning /Björn H. Jernudd and Jyotirindra Das Gupta --Evaluation and language planning /Joan Rubin --Cost-benefit analysis in language planning /Thomas Thorburn --Notes on economic analysis for solving language problems /Björn H. Jernudd --A tentative classification of language-planning aims /Chaim Rabin --Instrumentalism in language planning /Einar Haugen --[4.]Research strategies and a view towards the future:Research outline for comparative studies of language planning /Joshua A. Fishman, Jyotirindra Das Gupta, Björn H. Jernudd, and Joan Rubin --A view towards the future /Joan Rubin --Some introductory references pertaining to language planning /Björn H. Jernudd and Joan Rubin.