Language Planning as a Discourse on Language and Society: The Linguistic Ideology of a Scholarly Tradition  

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Blommaert, Jan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 20 no. 3 (1996), page 199-222.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/20 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Language planning is a tradition which flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, but waned in the 1980s. The 1990s, however, have witnessed a resurgence of attention to language planning, probably as a result of the new developments in South Africa. In this article, I want to initiate an evaluation of the past performances of the tradition of language planning, in view of a theoretical, conceptual and methodological improvement of future language planning studies. I first sketch the historical development of language planning studies, and next discuss some ideological features present in much traditional language planning work. I raise the issues whether language planning had no theoretical background; the intuitive limitations of language planning; organic views of language and society, oligolingualism and the efficiency and integration assumptions. Next, I summarize the critiques of Glyn Williams and Andrew Apter, who both advocate a more political approach to language planning in which language is one variable on a par with a number of others. In concluding, I advocate an approach to language planning based on a combination of historiographic and ethnographic approaches.

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