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 c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anthony J. Liddicoat is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures Education in the School of International Studies at the University of South Australia. He is a former president of the Australian Federation of Modern language Teachers Associations. His research interests include: language and intercultural issues in education, conversation analysis, and language policy and planning. In recent years his research has focussed on ways on issues relating to the teaching and learning of culture through language study and his work has contributed to the development of Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning. He has published many books and papers in this area including Introduction to Conversation Analysis, Language Planning and Literacy, Australian Perspectives on Internationalisation, and Perspectives on Europe. Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. is Associate Professor of TESOL in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and a member of the Executive of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). He has published numerous articles in refereed journals and books. He is co-editor of Language Planning and Education in Australasia and the South Pacific (Multilingual Matters, 1990), principal researcher and editor for the Viability of Low Candidature LOTE Courses in Universities (DEET, 1995), co-author with Robert B. Kaplan of Language Planning from Practice to Theory (Multilingual Matters, 1997) and Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin (Kluwer, 2003), and co-author with Zhao Shouhui of Planning Chinese Characters: Revolution, Evolution or Reaction (Springer, 2007).