Request for references on Implementation

[Joshua Fishman]

I remember some good stuff on implementation in
Fishman and Cooper's "The Spread of English".
Actually, it was about Hebrew. Have you looked
for new references on LLBA? That is always my
first point of inquiry. JAF



--- tahereh ahmadipour
<tahereh_ahmadipour at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> "Harold F. Schiffman"
> <haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu> wrote:There is a
> first time for everything, and this is the
> first time I'm
> asking members of this list to give me some
> references. I have been
> working on an article recently on some issues
> concerning language policy
> implementation, and can't find much that is
> said about it except to define it. There are
three articles in Cobarrubias and
> Fishman 1983, one by
> Haugen (on corpus planning), another by Barnes
> (on China) and a third by
> Lewis (on the USSR), but beyond this I'm
> stumped.
>
> I (and others of course, too) have always held
> that implementation is the
> "Achilles' Heel" of language policy and
> planning, i.e. the weakest link,
> and that many failures of policy are due to
> poor implementation, not poor
> planning (unless we include poor
> implementation-planning in planning).
>
> Can anyone refer me to other specific analyses
> of failures of
> implementation, i.e. detailed studies of how a
> particular language policy
> failed to achieve its objectives because of
> failure to carry out the
> implementation of it? Or, studies of exemplary
> implementation, which led
> to great successes in the plan?
>
> Here is the definition of implementation that I
> am working with,
> constructed from various people's statements
> about it:
>
> "Implementation in language policy consists of
> the measures (plans,
> strategies, timetables, mechanisms) that
> provide the authoritative
> backbone (including financial rewards and
> resources) to achieve the goals
> of the language policy, and the motivation for
> the use of the language of
> the policy by the people affected."
>
> Thanks very much in advance for any help people
> can offer.
>
> Hal Schiffman
>
>
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>
>
> fessor schiffman,
>
> I have just received your message and I will be
> very glad if I can help in that matter. The
> only material that I read about it and I know
> that it is not exactly to the point is the
> article by J.Rubin under the title "Bilingual
> Education and Language Planning" in Chris
> Kennedy "language planning and language
> education,"(1984).London,george
> allen&unwin.There are some good points about
> poor planning.He says that evaluating language
> planning and there are some hints about poor
> implementation.
>
> I have this article if it is not possible for
> you to find it I try to send it to you.One
> point about myself  I am a PhD student of
> linguistics in Isfahan university in Iran .
>
>  I a m working on my dissertation now.It is
> about the nonlinguistic factors influencing the
> acceptance of neologisms in speech community of
> persian-speakers according to Cooper's
> diffusion of linguistic innovation model.
>
> kindest regards
>
> Mrs Tahereh Ahmadipour
>
>
>
>
>
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