Main description:
This volume begins with an overview of Joshua A. Fishman's extensive work and influence in the field of language planning. The other papers link language planning with weighty issues such as politics, ecology, and national development. More specific papers deal with the problems of political and social intricacies of language planning in the European Community, in India, on the African continent, in Israel, Cuba and Quebec. Two papers deal with corpus planning from a lexicological (Yiddish) and terminological point of view. Contributors Karin L. Adams Daniel T. Brink, Roland Breton, Eyamba G. Bokamba, Denise Daoust, Hans R. Dua, Carol M. Eastman, Lewis Glinert, Bjorn H. Jernudd Jiri V. Neustupny, David F. Marshall, Grant D. McConnell, Ana Roca, Mordkhe Schaechter, Claude Truchot, John de Vries and Colin H. Williams.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Joshua A. Fishman on Language Planning
- Multi-Disciplined Language Planning
- Towards a Sociology of Language Planning
- Language Planning and Social Change
- Empirical and Theoretical Advances in Macro Studies as a Basis for Language Planning and SocialDevelopment
- Towards a Language Policy for the European Community
- Language Planning in India
- The Political and Sociolinguistics of Status Planning in Africa
- The Handicaps of Language Planning in Africa
- French Colonial Language Policies in Africa and Their Legacies
- The 'Back to the Future' Syndrome in Language Planning
- Language Maintenance and Language Shift in the Cuban American Community of Miami
- Yidish Military Terminology
- Terminological Change within a Language Planning Framework
- References
- Contributors
- Index
This volume begins with an overview of Joshua A. Fishman's extensive work and influence in the field of language planning. The other papers link language planning with weighty issues such as politics, ecology, and national development. More specific papers deal with the problems of political and social intricacies of language planning in the European Community, in India, on the African continent, in Israel, Cuba and Quebec. Two papers deal with corpus planning from a lexicological (Yiddish) and terminological point of view. Contributors Karin L. Adams Daniel T. Brink, Roland Breton, Eyamba G. Bokamba, Denise Daoust, Hans R. Dua, Carol M. Eastman, Lewis Glinert, Bjorn H. Jernudd Jiri V. Neustupny, David F. Marshall, Grant D. McConnell, Ana Roca, Mordkhe Schaechter, Claude Truchot, John de Vries and Colin H. Williams.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Joshua A. Fishman on Language Planning
- Multi-Disciplined Language Planning
- Towards a Sociology of Language Planning
- Language Planning and Social Change
- Empirical and Theoretical Advances in Macro Studies as a Basis for Language Planning and SocialDevelopment
- Towards a Language Policy for the European Community
- Language Planning in India
- The Political and Sociolinguistics of Status Planning in Africa
- The Handicaps of Language Planning in Africa
- French Colonial Language Policies in Africa and Their Legacies
- The 'Back to the Future' Syndrome in Language Planning
- Language Maintenance and Language Shift in the Cuban American Community of Miami
- Yidish Military Terminology
- Terminological Change within a Language Planning Framework
- References
- Contributors
- Index