Language Planning and Policy: Language Planning in Local Contexts

Liddicoat (applied linguistics, U. of South Australia) and Baldauf (TESOL, U. of Queensland) present a collection of articles previously published in the Current Issues in Language Planning journal between 2000 and 2006 which explore how language planning works as a local activity in a variety of settings around the world. The chapters contain a number of case studies which examine language planning agents and degrees of formality in the language planning process at the micro-level. The material is organized into three broad areas of investigation: local language communities, in which indigenous or immigrant minority groups have intervened in language practice in some way; language planning in educational institutions, at both the school and university level; and language planning in professional workplace contexts, including language editors and a multilingual enterprise. No subject index. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)