The national press & its framing of Singlish: print media as a language planning and policy tool
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DOI: 10.1080/13488678.2024.2391236
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article explores a significant gap in research on Singlish by examining The Straits Times (ST) as a language planning and policy tool. Using representation theory, legitimisation theory, and framing, it analyzes ST’s media… read more here.
Keywords: planning policy; language planning; policy tool; language ... See more keywords
Can the research on language planning be also planned?: Recent academia-government interactions in China
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DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2020.1744318
Abstract: ABSTRACT The current Language Policy and Planning (LPP) literature does not differentiate between LPP as practical planning and LPP as a research area. This lack of a conceptual distinction has led to difficulties in explaining… read more here.
Keywords: language planning; research; government; lpp research ... See more keywords
Language planning issues of Hungarian legal language and the clear writing programme as a possible solution
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DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2023.2283653
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper discusses the ‘fuzziness’ of Hungarian legal language as an issue of language planning addressed in the Hungarian language strategy to be published by the Hungarian Research Centre for Language Planning. First, we… read more here.
Keywords: language planning; clear writing; legal language; hungarian legal ... See more keywords
Radical cyberfeminists as language planners: South Korea’s Womad
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DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2024.2328390
Abstract: ABSTRACT In response to tumultuous gender relations in South Korea, many feminist and anti-feminist communities have increased their online presence since the 2010s. At the extreme end of this spectrum is the radical cyberfeminist community… read more here.
Keywords: cyberfeminists language; south korea; language planners; language planning ... See more keywords
Migration through a language planning lens: a typology of Welsh speakers’ migration decisions
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DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2024.2349396
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper seeks to explain the migration decisions of minority language speakers by investigating motivating factors. Viewed through a language planning lens, the study pushes the parameters of some of the discipline's more recent… read more here.
Keywords: migration decisions; language; language planning; typology ... See more keywords
EMI programs in Azerbaijani Higher Education: analysis of macro, meso, and micro level agents’ perceptions of language policy and planning implementation
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DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2024.2400644
Abstract: ABSTRACT Within the last decade, Azerbaijani universities’ upward implementation of English-medium instruction (EMI) policy has spread among most of the country's universities, public and private . Studies show that EMI programs in many universities worldwide… read more here.
Keywords: language policy; language planning; language; policy ... See more keywords
Family linguistic ecology in Chinese American diasporas: migrants’ heritage language planning and discursive ethnolinguistic identity in-between
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DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2024.2377190
Abstract: ABSTRACT Heritage language maintenance is a challenge faced by many immigrant parents. Previous studies on Chinese immigrant families and inheritance of the mother tongue privileged a pedagogical perspective focusing on second-language acquisition and literacy developments.… read more here.
Keywords: heritage language; linguistic ecology; language planning; identity ... See more keywords
Languages Are Not the Problem: Re-thinking Language Planning in Post-colonial Ghana Through African and Africana Philosophical Frameworks
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DOI: 10.1177/00219096251365487
Abstract: This article extends discussions on decolonizing language policy and planning in African contexts to include African and Africana philosophical concepts. Drawing on Kwasi Wiredu’s project of conceptual decolonization and Molefi Asante’s concept of Afrocentricity, the… read more here.
Keywords: problem; language planning; language; ghana african ... See more keywords
Yucatec Maya language planning and bilingual education in the Yucatan
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DOI: 10.14507/epaa.28.5136
Abstract: The rapid decline of indigenous languages represents one of the most troubling topics within applied linguistics. Teachers’ implementation of indigenous language planning through their pedagogical practices is a significant but under-researched issue. This ethnographic study… read more here.
Keywords: language; language planning; bilingual education; maya language ... See more keywords
Yucatec Maya language planning and the struggle of the linguistic standardization process
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DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2019-2048
Abstract: Abstract This study on Yucatec Maya language planning analyzes the linguistic standardization process over a six-year period. The primary research site was the programa, a mandatory Yucatec Maya course for 1,600 Indigenous Education teachers in… read more here.
Keywords: language planning; standardization; yucatec maya; maya ... See more keywords