Do Not Leave Your Language Alone

Do Not Leave Your Language Alone
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0805850236

Focusing on corpus planning in language policy, this book provides an integrative framework, and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with familiarity, with a range of language cases, and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate. This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework, and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity, with a wide range of language cases and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate. "Do Not Leave Your Language Alone: The Hidden Status Agendas Within Corpus Planning in Language Policy" begins with a brief introduction to language planning as a whole, to corpus planning in particular, and to the unavoidability of a status component in the execution of all corpus planning past, present, and future. The topics of the central chapters include: Corpus planning and status planning - separates, opposites, or Siamese twins; The directions and dimensions of corpus planning; 'Does "folksiness" come before or after "cleanliness"?'; The bi-polar dimension of uniqueness vs. Westernization; The classicfization vs. "panification" bi-polar dimension; The Ausbau vs. Einbau bi-polar dimension; The interdependence and independence of dimensional clusters; and, Can opposites and incommensurables be combined?

DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone

DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone
Author: Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2006-03-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113678960X

This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity with a wide range of language cases and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate.The novelty of this volume i

The Sense of Style

The Sense of Style
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0143127799

"Pinker has a lot of ideas and sometimes controversial opinions about writing and in this entertaining and instructive book he rethinks the usage guide for the 21st century. Don't blame the internet, he says, good writing has always been hard. It requires imagination, taking pleasure in reading, overcoming the difficult we all have in imaging what it's like to not know something we do know."--Publisher information.

Verbal Hygiene

Verbal Hygiene
Author: Deborah Cameron
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005-06-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134960646

In this book, Cameron explores popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use. She also argues that popular discourse about language values serves a function for those engaged in it.

Language Prescription

Language Prescription
Author: Don Chapman
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788928393

This book is a detailed examination of social connections to language evaluation with a specific focus on the values associated with both prescriptivism and descriptivism. The chapters, written by authors from many different linguistic and national backgrounds, use a variety of approaches and methods to discuss values in linguistic prescriptivism. In particular, the chapters break down the traditional binary approaches that characterize prescriptive discourse to create a view of the complex phenomena associated with prescriptivism and the values of those who practice it. Most importantly, this volume continues serious academic conversations about prescriptivism and lays the foundation for continued exploration.

Language Crisis in the Ryukyus

Language Crisis in the Ryukyus
Author: Mark Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2015-01-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443873462

Long denigrated as dialects of Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages are today recognized as languages in their own right. However, speakers of Ryukyuan languages have suffered from stigmatization, oppressive language policies and domination from outside the Ryukyu Archipelago. As a result, the Ryukyuan languages are now severely endangered. This volume depicts, roughly in chronological order, aspects which have led to the language crisis in the Ryukyus today. Taking account of these factors is important because endangered languages can only be maintained and revitalized on the basis of a comprehensive understanding of why these languages became endangered in the first place. The chapters of this book have been written by leading experts in Ryukyuan sociolinguistics and the scope encompasses the entire field. It sheds light on the dark side of language modernization, on a misplaced obsession with monolingualism, and on Japan’s difficulties in surmounting its invented self-image.

Approaches to Language

Approaches to Language
Author: William C. McCormack
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110800039

Language Regulation in English as a Lingua Franca

Language Regulation in English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Niina Hynninen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2016-07-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1614516677

Language regulation has often been approached from a top-down policy perspective, whereas this book examines regulatory practices employed by speakers in interaction. With its ethnographically informed focus on language regulation in academic English as a lingua franca (ELF), the book is a timely contribution to debates about what counts as acceptable English in ELF contexts, who can act as language expert, and when regulation is needed.