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The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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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.
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