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This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art account of research in language policy and planning (LPP). Through a critical examination of LPP, the Handbook offers new direction for a field in theoretical and methodological turmoil as a result of the socio-economic, institutional, and discursive processes of change taking place under the conditions of Late Modernity. Late Modernity refers to the widespread processes of late capitalism leading to the selective privatization of services (including education), the information revolution associated with rapidly changing statuses and functions of languages, the weakening of the institutions of nation-states (along with the strengthening of non-state actors), and the fragmentation of overlapping and competing identities associated with new complexities of language-identity relations and new forms of multilingual language use. As an academic discipline in the social sciences, LPP is fraught with tensions between these processes of change and the still-powerful ideological framework of modern nationalism. It is an exciting and energizing time for LPP research.
This Handbook propels the field forward, offering a dialogue between the two major historical trends in LPP associated with the processes of Modernity and Late Modernity: the focus on continuity behind the institutional policies of the modern nation-state, and the attention to local processes of uncertainty and instability across different settings resulting from processes of change. The Handbook takes great strides toward overcoming the long-standing division between "top-down" and "bottom-up" analysis in LPP research, setting the stage for theoretical and methodological innovation.
Part I defines alternative theoretical and conceptual frameworks in LPP, emphasizing developments since the ethnographic turn, including: ethnography in LPP; historical-discursive approaches; ethics, normative theorizing, and transdisciplinary methods; and the renewed focus on socio-economic class. Part II examines LPP against the background of influential ideas about language shaped by the institutions of the nation-state, with close attention to the social position of minority languages and specific communities facing profound language policy challenges. Part III investigates the turmoil and tensions that currently characterize LPP research under conditions of Late Modernity. Finally, Part IV presents an integrative summary and directions for future LPP research.
Contents
Preface
Contributors
1. Research and practice in language policy and planning
James W. Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans
Part I. Conceptual underpinnings of language policy and planning (LPP): Theories and methods in dialogue
2. Socio-economic junctures, theoretical shifts: A genealogy of LPP research
Monica Heller
3. Research methods in language policy and planning
David Cassels Johnson
4. The critical ethnographic turn in research on language policy and planning
Marilyn Martin-Jones and Ildegrada da Costa Cabral
5. Critical discourse-ethnographic approaches to language policy
Ruth Wodak and Kristof Savski
6. Metapragmatics in the ethnography of language policy
Miguel Pérez-Milans
7. Language ethics and the interdisciplinary challenge
Yael Peled
Part II. LPP, Nation-states and Communities
II.A. Modern nationalism, languages, minorities, standardization, and globalization
8. Nationalism and national languages
Tomasz Kamusella
9. Language and the state in Western political theory: Implications for
language policy and planning
Peter Ives
10. Ideologies of language standardization: The case of Cantonese in Hong Kong
Katherine H. Y. Chen
11. Globalization, language policy, and the role of English
Thomas Ricento
12. Language rights and language repression
Stephen May
II.B. LPP in institutions of the modern nation-state: Education, citizenship, media and public signage
13. Medium of instruction policy
James W. Tollefson and Amy B.M. Tsui
14. Language tests, language policy, and citizenship
Kellie Frost and Tim McNamara
15. Language policy and mass media
Xuesong (Andy) Gao and Qing Shao
16. Maintaining "Good Guys" and "Bad Guys": Implicit Language Policies in Media Coverage of International Crises
Sandra Silberstein
17. Language policy and planning and linguistic landscapes
Francis M. Hult
II.C. LPP in/through communities
18. Revitalizing and sustaining endangered languages
Teresa L. McCarty
19. "We work as bilinguals": Socioeconomic changes and language policy for indigenous languages in El Impenetrable
Virginia Unamuno and Juan Eduardo Bonnin
20. Critical community language policies in education: Solomon Islands Case
Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo, David W. Gegeo, and Billy Fito'o
21. Family Language Policy
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen
22. Language policies and sign languages
Ronice Müller de Quadros
Part III. LPP and Late Modernity
III.A. LPP, neoliberalism and governmentality: A political economy view of language, bilingualism and social class
23. Language policy and planning, institutions and neoliberalization
Eva Codó
24. Post-nationalism and language commodification
Joan Pujolar
25. Bilingual education policy and neoliberal CLIL practices
Ana María Relaño-Pastor
26. Turning language and communication into productive resources: LPP and multinational corporations
Alfonso Del Percio
27. Neoliberalism and linguistic governmentality
Luisa Martín Rojo
28. Inequality and class in language policy and planning
David Block
III.B. Mobility, diversity and new social media: Revisiting key constructs
29. Community languages in late modernity
Li Wei
30. New speakers and language policy
Bernadette O'Rourke, Josep Soler and Jeroen Darquennes
31. Security and language policy
Constadina Charalambous, Panayiota Charalambous, Kamran Khan, and Ben Rampton
32. Language policy and new media: An age of convergence culture
Aoife Lenihan
III.C. Language, ideology and critique: Rethinking forms of engagement
33. Language ideologies in the text based art of Xu Bing: Implications for language policy and planning
Adam Jaworski
34. Language education policy and sociolinguistics: Toward a new critical engagement
Jürgen Jaspers
Part IV. Summary and future directions
35. Language policy and planning: Directions for future research
Miguel Pérez-Milans and James W. Tollefson
Index
