[lg policy] question for the members of this list

[Stan Anonby]

Happy New Year, Harold,

I enjoy your list. I probably don't need to read the mini-squibs, though...

Stan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Schiffman" <haroldfs at gmail.com>
To: "Language Policy List" <lgpolicy-list at groups.sas.upenn.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: [lg policy] question for the members of this list


> All,
>
> Okay, the consensus so far is that I should continue sending these
> snippets about
> language policy.  I will label them somehow (probably erratically
> until I devise a system)
> as "squibs" or "bibliography" or "book review" and others are welcome
> to contribute
> these kinds of things, too!  Thanks to all of you who commented on
> this--I'm gratified
> to know that you share my view of what lgpolicy is, or ought to be.
>
> On another note, I have just added a new political cartoon to our
> language policy cartoon
> page.  This one shows Thomas Babington Macaulay, author of the famous
> "minute" that
> decided British colonial language policy in favor of English, being
> manipulated like a puppet
> while manipulating the colonials like puppets.  It appeared in a
> posting I sent out a few days ago,
> but not everybody's email system supports images, so you may not have seen 
> it.
> The posting is worth a careful read, btw. (There's a link to it from
> the cartoon.)
>
> You can access the cartoons page from the RESOURCES page on the
> website.  While you're
> there, if anybody knows the origin of the cartoon depicting Stalin
> ranting about Franglais, please
> let me know.  I acquired it somehow but didn't keep track of where I
> got it from.
>
> Thanks and Happy New Year
>
> Hal Schiffman
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:36 AM, sociolingo <sociolingo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I find the bibliographic items useful and I'd like you to continue
>> forwarding them to the list.
>> Maggie Canvin
>>
>> 2010/1/2 Harold Schiffman <hfsclpp at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> All:
>>>
>>> I have a question that I would like an answer to. I receive a daily
>>> "google alert" on the topic of "language policy." This is a service
>>> I requested of Google, and what they do is search the web for any
>>> mention of "language" and "policy" in the messages they
>>> transmit. They compile a list and forward it to me, and I read the
>>> messages to see if they are germane to our topic. (Many
>>> are not--many messages talk about the "language" of a policy, by which
>>> they mean the wording of the text, not the human
>>> organ of speech and/or a named variety of language.)
>>>
>>> Recently, the google alerts have been turning up bibliographic items
>>> such as articles or monographs about language policy,
>>> and I have forwarded some of these to the list. Nobody has complained
>>> about this, but I wonder if this is useful to anyone. For example,
>>> yesterday I forwarded a message about the language policy of the Food
>>> and Agricultural Organization, a two-line squib mentioning
>>> which order they list language icons in. Others have been from
>>> various jurisdictions in South Africa, which seems to be requiring
>>> or at least urging people to formulate a language policy, and make it
>>> known; these have included the Stellenbosch University,
>>> the government of the Western Cape, and others. Further examples
>>> include departments of a Danish university, such as the Engineering
>>> School.
>>>
>>> Since I always tell my students that language policies can be found in
>>> lots of different nooks and crannies of the world, not just
>>> the governments of states, but religious organizations, labor unions,
>>> and other jurisdictions and polities, these are good examples
>>> of that. It also reminds us that sometimes a body may have a covert
>>> policy, i.e. one that assumes that a certain language will
>>> be "official" but doesn't state it explicitly. These, of course, get
>>> no mention.
>>>
>>> Anyway, my question is: would you like me to continue to forward these
>>> "mini-squibs" about language policy, e.g. in the FAO,
>>> or should I be more judicious?
>>>
>>> Thanks, and Happy New Year!
>>>
>>> H. Schiffman
>>>
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