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<font face="Geneva" size="+1" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:14pt;color:#000000;">Hal: <br />
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Happy New Year. Yes, the snippets are exactly on topic for any modern or post-modern conceptualization of language policy. Keep them coming; it's easy to delete any that are not interesting to us but very hard to find the little treasures that suit our own idiosyncratic research interests. <br />
Stacy<br />
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[Mr.] Stacy Churchill, Ph.D.<br />
Professor Emeritus<br />
Education Policy and Minority Education Policy<br />
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Univ. of Toronto<br />
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Emeritus Research Fellow/ Chercheur émérite<br />
Institut de langues officielles et du bilinguisme, Université d'Ottawa<br />
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Postal address (Residence) <br />
10 Riverside Crescent<br />
Toronto, Ontario M6S 1B6<br />
Canada<br />
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Telephone: (1) 416-769-0843 (residence)<br />
e-mail: schurchill@oise.utoronto.ca<br />
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</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Lucida Grande;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b>Language Policy List <lgpolicy-list@groups.sas.upenn.edu> writes:<br />
</b></font><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">All:<br />
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I have a question that I would like an answer to. I receive a daily<br />
"google alert" on the topic of "language policy." This is a service<br />
I requested of Google, and what they do is search the web for any<br />
mention of "language" and "policy" in the messages they<br />
transmit. They compile a list and forward it to me, and I read the<br />
messages to see if they are germane to our topic. (Many<br />
are not--many messages talk about the "language" of a policy, by which<br />
they mean the wording of the text, not the human<br />
organ of speech and/or a named variety of language.)<br />
<br />
Recently, the google alerts have been turning up bibliographic items<br />
such as articles or monographs about language policy,<br />
and I have forwarded some of these to the list. Nobody has complained<br />
about this, but I wonder if this is useful to anyone. For example,<br />
yesterday I forwarded a message about the language policy of the Food<br />
and Agricultural Organization, a two-line squib mentioning<br />
which order they list language icons in. Others have been from<br />
various jurisdictions in South Africa, which seems to be requiring<br />
or at least urging people to formulate a language policy, and make it<br />
known; these have included the Stellenbosch University,<br />
the government of the Western Cape, and others. Further examples<br />
include departments of a Danish university, such as the Engineering<br />
School.<br />
<br />
Since I always tell my students that language policies can be found in<br />
lots of different nooks and crannies of the world, not just<br />
the governments of states, but religious organizations, labor unions,<br />
and other jurisdictions and polities, these are good examples<br />
of that. It also reminds us that sometimes a body may have a covert<br />
policy, i.e. one that assumes that a certain language will<br />
be "official" but doesn't state it explicitly. These, of course, get<br />
no mention.<br />
<br />
Anyway, my question is: would you like me to continue to forward these<br />
"mini-squibs" about language policy, e.g. in the FAO,<br />
or should I be more judicious?<br />
<br />
Thanks, and Happy New Year!<br />
<br />
H. Schiffman<br />
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