[lg policy] bibitem: Rearticulating the Case for Micro Language Planning in a Language Ecology Context

[Christina Paulston]

On Apr 18, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Harold Schiffman wrote:

> Rearticulating the Case for Micro Language Planning in a Language
> Ecology Context
>
> Current Issues in Language Planning
> Volume 7, Issue 2 & 3, 2006, Pages 147 - 170
> Author: Richard B. Baldauf
> DOI: 10.2167/cilp092.0
>
>
> Abstract
>
> Language planning is normally thought of in terms of large-scale,
> usually national planning, often undertaken by governments and meant
> to influence, if not change, ways of speaking or literacy practices
> within a society. It normally encompasses four aspects: status
> planning (about society), corpus planning (about language),
> language-in-education (or acquisition) planning (about learning), and
> (most recently) prestige planning (about image). When thinking about
> these aspects, both policy (i.e. form) and planning (i.e. function)
> components need to be considered as well as whether such policy and
> planning will be overt or covert in terms of the way it is put into
> action. Language policy and planning on this scale has dominated
> current work in the field. However, over the past decade language
> planning has taken on a more critical edge and its ecological context
> has been given greater emphasis, leading to an increasing acceptance
> that language planning can (and does) occur at different levels, i.e.
> the macro, meso and micro. This shift in focus has also led to a
> rethinking of agency - who has the power to influence change in these
> micro language policy and planning situations. Given this break with
> the dominant macro history, the question may be asked, is this
> developing notion of micro language planning and local agency actually
> language planning? If so, what are its parameters? Micro language
> planning studies are examined to illustrate trends in the literature.
>
> http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a907092589
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