文档介绍:PLANNING CHINESE CHARACTERS
Language Policy
VOLUME 9
Series Editors:
Bernard Spolsky, Bar-llan University, Israel
Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Editorial Board:
Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA
es Lüdi, University of Basel, Switzerland
Normand Labrie, University of Toronto, Canada
Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore, Singapore
John Trim, Former Fellow, Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK
Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University, USA
The last half century has witnessed an explosive shift in language diversity not
unlike the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, but involving now a rapid spread of
global languages and an associated threat to small languages. The diffusion of
global languages, the stampede towards English, the counter-pressures in the form
of ethnic efforts to reverse or slow process, the continued determination of nation-
states to assert national identity through language, and, in an opposite direction,
the greater tolerance shown to multilingualism and the increasing concern for
language rights, all these are working to make the study of the nature and
possibilities of language policy and planning a field of swift growth.
The series will publish empirical studies of general language policy or of language
education policy, or monographs dealing with the theory and general nature of the
field. We e detailed accounts of language policy-making – who is involved,
what is done, how it develops, why it is attempted. We will publish research dealing
with the development of policy under different conditions and the effect of
implementation. We will be interested in accounts of policy development by
governments and governmental agencies, by large panies,
foundations, anizations, as well as the efforts of groups attempting to resist
or modify governmental policies. We will also consider empirical studies that are
relevant to po