DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone
The Hidden Status Agendas Within Corpus Planning in Language Policy
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 2006
176 pages
978-1-136-78960-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity with a wide range of language cases and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate.The novelty of this volume i
Reviews / Votes
"Joshua Fishman is the most well-known and respected scholar in the world of language planning/policy studies. His work is universally read and is considered essential for all courses in the field. This book fills an important gap in language planning, and will receive wide attention from scholars and students alike."-James Tollefson, International Christian University, Japan"Joshua Fishman is a key figure in the fields of sociolinguistics and language planning and policy...I have no doubt that this book will be influential and highly read. Fishman is poised to make yet another important contribution to the field."-Kendall King,
Georgetown University "This book provides a new look at corpus planning. As one of the most important figures in language planning, the author tries to build a broad, integrative framework of corpus planning in written language and discusses many cases of language planning in detail. His efforts are very useful for understanding the essentials of language planning in general, and political/social factors in the activities in language planning in particular." -- Linguist List, 10/09/2007
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
4,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-78960-1 (9781136789601)
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Joshua A. Fishman
DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone
The Hidden Status Agendas Within Corpus Planning in Language Policy
Book
03/2006
1st Edition
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Joshua A. Fishman
DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone
The Hidden Status Agendas Within Corpus Planning in Language Policy
Book
03/2006
1st Edition
Routledge
€68.90
Shipment within 10-20 days
Content
Contents: Preface. Introduction to Language Planning: Some Preliminaries. Corpus Planning and Status Planning: Separates, Opposites, or Siamese Twins? The Directions and Dimensions of Corpus Planning. Purity Versus Vernacularity: Does Folksiness Come Before or After Cleanliness? The Bipolar Dimension of Uniqueness Versus Westernization. The Classicization Versus Panification Bipolar Dimension. The Ausbau Versus Einbau Bipolar Dimension (or, Must the Lamb Look Unlike the Wolf in Order Not to Be Mistaken for the Wolf?). The Interdependence and Independence of Dimensional Clusters. Can Opposites and Incommensurables Be Combined? Epilogue: Some Things OLD and Some Things NEW, and Some Things BORROWED on Which to Chew. Appendices: Questions for In-Class Discussion or Written Assignment. A Terminology Committee at Work.
