changing language policy and ideas about language

[Margaret Ronkin]

For anyone who's interested:

Collins, James. 1998. Our ideologies and theirs. In B. Schieffelin, K. Woolard & P. Kroskrity (eds.). Language ideologies. Practice and theory. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 16. New York and Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Pp. 256-270.

Also, the excellent article on Haitian Creole by B. Schieffelin and R. Doucet is 'The "real" Haitian Creole: Ideology, metalinguistics, and orthographic choice' in the same volume, Pp. 285-316.

--Maggie
----- Original Message -----
From: Aurolyn Luykx <aurolynluykx at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:37 am
Subject: Re: changing language policy and ideas about language

> Certainly. James Collins' article "Our Ideologies and
> Theirs" makes some good points in this regard. Too
> often I see language planners thinking of "language
> ideologies" as those mistaken ideas held by everyday
> speakers, that act as obstacles to their (the
> planners') well-laid plans! I'm encouraged at seeing
> more critical linguists examining planners' and
> policymakers' (and linguists') own views from the
> perspective of language ideologies as well (A. Jaffe's
> work on Corsica comes to mind, also the excellent
> article on Haitian Creole by Schieffelin & Doucet).
> Aurolyn Luykx
>