Coming-Ready or not? Language Policy Development in New Zealand  

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Peddie, Roger A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 15 no. 1 (1991), page 25-42.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Language policy has been considered to result from an interaction between central government's espoused values and perceptions of political and economic needs. In the case of Australia, a policy decision was arguably based on just such an interaction following some years of investigation and public debate. This paper suggests that the situation in New Zealand is more complex: policy is emerging piecemeal, without any clear central planning and without much of the data needed for sound policy development. Nevertheless, political pressure from the indigenous Maori people and from community and other language interest groups appears to have interacted positively with espoused govenul1ent values on partnership and equity. This may still lead to a coherent national policy, whether New Zealand is "ready or not". The New Zealand case suggests that a more complex theory of language policy development may still need to be formulated.

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