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'Think globally, act locally' is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges. The book examines the impact of English in countries in which it is taken for granted — Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA. It explores how the dominance of English impacts on the development of national language policies, the maintenance of minority languages, the ability to provide services in other languages, the efforts to promote first language and bilingual education programs, and the opportunities for adult and child second language and literacy training. The book examines language and language-in-education policies in these countries and the extent to which English influences some policies or preludes others. It explores the viability of a statement on national language policies that could be adopted by the International Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) organization as a statement of principles. The book explores how to raise issues of individual, social and educational responsibilities that TESOL members must face as they are influenced by, and can influence, the language policy agendas established in these countries. It explores what can be learned from other English dominant nations, and compares language policy and practice, developing a more cross-national view on rights and responsibilities in language and language-in-education in these five dominant nations.

Language policy is an issue of critical importance in the world today. In this introduction, Bernard Spolsky explores many debates at the forefront of language policy: ideas of correctness and bad language; bilingualism and multilingualism; language death and efforts to preserve endangered languages; language choice as a human and civil right; and language education policy. Through looking at the language practices, beliefs and management of social groups from families to supra-national organizations, he develops a theory of modern national language policy and the major forces controlling it, such as the demands for efficient communication, the pressure for national identity, the attractions of (and resistance to) English as a global language, and the growing concern for human and civil rights as they impinge on language. Two central questions asked in this wide-ranging survey are of how to recognize language policies, and whether or not language can be managed at all

A detailed overview of the theories, concepts, research methods, and findings in the field of language policy is provided here in one accessible source. The author proposes new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual directions and offers guidance for doing language policy research.

The definitive guide to the field of language policy, rich with examplesExplores a theory of language policy starting with the individual speaker rather than the nationDraws on a range of examples and case studies including examples of threatened indigenous and minority languages throughout the worldSurveys the language practices, beliefs, and planning efforts of a wide range of stakeholders including families, public institutions and local and national activistsDrawing on four decades of research, Bernard Spolsky presents an updated theory of language policy that starts with the individual speaker instead of the nation. In this book, he surveys the language practices, beliefs, and planning efforts of individuals, families, public and private institutions, local and national activists, advocates and managers, and nations. He examines the diversity of linguistic repertoires and the multiplicity of forces, linguistic and non-linguistic, which account for language shift and maintenance. By starting with the individual speaker and moving through the various levels and domains, Spolsky shows the many different policies with which a national government must compete and illustrates why national policy is so difficult. A definitive guide to the field, this is essential reading for policy makers, stakeholders, researchers, and students of language policy

I Congresso Internacional América Latina e Interculturalidade: América Latina e Caribe: cenários linguístico-culturais contemporâneos, 07, 08 e 09 de novembro de 2013 - UNILA ; This article distinguishes between language policy and linguistic policies. The first one is also named the politics of language, which interprets the essentials of language diversity as a problem, as rights or as linguistic capital. It analyzes at the national and international level, whereas linguistic policies are the constraints that can be understood from linguistic rights and they follow a certain language policy. These constraints are measures at the intra­national level. Then, the plurilingualism of Bolivia is overt thanks to the recognition of languages at the meso and macro level, say, in the community and in the society.

Der Autor thematisiert die Misserfolge bei der Umsetzung von Sprachenpolitik und fragt nach den Gründen, warum viele Erzieher und Sprachenlehrer nicht die Empfehlungen von Experten berücksichtigen, wie eine erfolgreiche Sprachenplanung gestaltet werden kann. Er geht vor diesem Hintergrund der Frage nach, ob ein Sprachmanagement innerhalb der anerkannten und weniger bevorzugten Sprachen möglich ist, und problematisiert die Tatsache, dass eine bilinguale Erziehung meistens aufrechterhalten wird, um die Macht und Akzeptanz einer ethnischen oder lokalen Vielfalt (z.B. Irisch und Französisch in Québec, Katalanisch und Baskisch in den autonomen Gebieten, Maorisch in Neuseeland usw.) zu vergrößern oder um den Übergang zu einer internationalen Sprache zu beschleunigen (z.B. Russisch in den Sowjetrepubliken, Englisch in Singapur), anstatt den Schulbesuch für Sprecher benachteiligter Sprachen zu erleichtern. Der Autor unterbreitet daher eine Reihe von Vorschlägen, um die Kluft zwischen der anerkannten Wissenschaftstheorie und der aktuellen Unterrichtspraxis zu überbrücken. (ICI).

Intro -- Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Part I. Setting the scene -- Chapter 1. General introduction -- 1. An unusual book -- 2. Background of the MIME project -- 3. The trade-off model -- 4. The contributions to this book -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 2. Principles of integrated language policy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Integrated language policy in MIME -- 3. Key concepts and tools -- Interdisciplinarity -- Complexity -- Policy relevance -- 4. From theoretical principles to application -- 5. Discussion: Adding plausibility -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II. Politics -- Chapter 3. Cross-jurisdictional linguistic cooperation in multilingual federations: Proposals for Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Comparing mobility and inclusion in federal entities: Canada, the US and India -- 2.1 Canada -- 2.2 United States -- 2.3 India -- 3. Towards optimal mobility and inclusion equilibria - linguistic subsidiarity, reciprocity and a new tool: Linguapass -- 3.1 Lessons drawn from comparisons: The EU and extra-European federations -- 3.2 Multilevel governance, subsidiarity and reciprocity -- 3.3 Linguapass -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Online resources -- Chapter 4. How to upgrade the status of migrant languages in the European Union -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Migrant language status and the MIME project -- 3. Key concepts and tools -- 4. Introducing traditional minority languages and migrant languages -- 4.1 Traditional minority languages -- 4.2 Migrant languages -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix. Legal and political documents, sources and files.

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Editors -- Contributors -- Introductory Chapter: Questioning Borders -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Language, Policy & the State -- 3 Language Policies Beyond the State? -- 3.1 Decentering the State: Globalization, Migration, Regionalism -- 3.2 Language-Policy Agents Beyond the State? -- 4 Why Focus on Estonia in Language Policy Research? -- 4.1 Estonia's Borderland Existence -- 4.2 Estonia's Dynamism -- 4.3 Newly Emerging Speech Communities -- 5 Spatial and Temporal Reconsiderations: An Overview of the Volume -- 5.1 Space -- 5.2 Time -- References -- Part I: Spatial Reconsiderations: State Decentered by Migration and Globalization -- Priming Language Political Issues as Issues of State Security: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Language Ideological Debates in Estonian Media Before and After the Ukrainian Crisis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Russian-Speaking Minority and Media -- 3 Theoretical and Methodological Considerations -- 3.1 State Security and Language Planning -- 3.2 Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies -- 3.3 Discourse Analysis of Language Ideological Debates -- 4 Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Language Ideological Debates on the Delfi News Portal, August 2013 - February 2015 -- 4.1 Building the Corpora -- 4.2 Electoral Debates and Priming -- 4.3 Corpus-Assisted Analysis of the Corpora -- 4.3.1 The Tentative Keyness of the Corpora March 2014 - February 2015 -- 4.3.2 Concordancing Narva -- 5 Discussion -- References -- Doing Language Policy: Teasing Out the Tensions for Transnational Scholars in Estonian and Danish Higher Education -- 1 Language and Transnational Scholars in the International University -- 2 The Internationalization of HE in Two Contexts: Theory, Method and Analysis

"An increasingly important field of research within multilingualism and sociolinguistics, Family Language Policy (FLP) investigates the explicit and overt planning of language use within the home and among family members. However the diverse range of different family units and contexts around the globe necessitates a similarly diverse range of research perspectives which are not yet represented within the field. Tackling this problem head on, this volume expands the scope of families in FLP research. Bringing together contributors and case studies from every continent, this essential reference broadens lines of inquiry by investigating language practices and ideologies in previously under-researched families. Seeking to better reflect contemporary influences on FLP processes, chapters use innovative methodologies, including digital ethnographies and autoethnography, to explore diverse family configurations (adoptive, LGBTQ+, and single parent), modalities (digital communication and signed languages), and speakers and contexts (adult learners, Indigenous contexts, and new speakers). Bringing to light the dynamic, fluid nature of family and kinship as well as the important role that multilingualism plays in family members' negotiation of power, agency, and identity construction, Diversifying Family Language Policy is a state-of-the-art reference to contemporary theoretical, methodological and ethical advances in the field of family language policy"--

language policy earlier has been designed to promote languages in education, administration, and Judiciary, etc. It is seen as a powerful political instrument for promoting co-existence of different languages. Now effective technological and scientific (language) tools are available for formulation comprehensive language policies and their implementation. UNESCO is doing commendable work in this regard by tracking a number of capacity building initiatives to strengthen nations and their institution to faster the implementation of language policies. A comprehensive language policy aimed at language promotion should be framed up taking into account specificities of the linguistic and cultural diversity of the nation and the issue arose out of such diversity. This can be done by sharing and exchange of good practices with other nations. The language policy should highlight the need for extensively using technology for promoting and protecting languages, developing e-content and supporting e-governance in native languages etc. The language policy should also make a detailed analysis of native languages for contribution economy of the nation for sustainable development and inclusive growth.

Economic theory of language policy treats a language as an economic phenomenon. A language situation is considered to be an economic, or market, situation, while language policy becomes an element of economic policies. The paper aims to systematize and to further develop theoretical and methodological aspects of this promising research field situated between economics and sociolinguistics.