Can language be planned? : : sociolinguistic theory for developing nations / / edited by Joan Rubin and Björn H. Jernudd.

• TeilnehmendeR: Jernudd, Björn H.,; Rubin, Joan, 1932-
• Place / Publishing House: Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 1971; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 1971
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 343 pages)
• Notes: Revised papers from a meeting held April 7-10, 1969, in Hawaii.; "An East-West Center book."; Originally published: Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii, [1971].

This book is intended to serve several purposes: to demonstrate the need for a multidisciplinary approach to language planning, to awaken the interest of all the social sciences to the role of language in modernization, to interest social scientists in the theoretical gain to be had from the study of language planning, to help widen the field of sociolinguistics by interesting linguists in people's attempts to influence their own speech and the social and economic environment of deliberate language change, and to encourage participant language planners to scrutinize the processes that occur as they proceed to make and carry out language decisions. It is also meant to serve as a stimulus to research in language planning.

Table of Contents

Introduction : language planning as an element in modernization / Joan Rubin and Björn H. Jernudd -- The motivation and rationalization for language policy : the impact of nationalism on language planning : some comparisons between early twentieth-century Europe and more recent years in South and Southeast Asia / Joshua A. Fishman -- Language as an aid and barrier to involvement in the national system / Herbert C. Kelman -- Religion, language, and political mobilization / Jyotirindra Das Gupta -- Case studies of language planning : successes and failures in the movement for the restoration of Irish / John Macnamara -- Spelling reform -Israel 1968 / Chaim Rabin -- Language-planning processes and the language-policy survey in the Philippines / Bonifacio P. Sibayan -- Some factors influencing language policies in Eastern Africa / Wilfred H. Whiteley -- Language reform and social modernization in Turkey / Charles F. Gallagher -- Some planning processes in the development of the Indonesian-Malay language / S. Takdir Alisjahbana -- The development of Bengali since the establishment of Pakistan / Muhammad Abdul Hai -- A general approach to language planning : towards a theory of language planning / Björn H. Jernudd and Jyotirindra Das Gupta -- Evaluation and language planning / Joan Rubin -- Cost-benefit analysis in language planning / Thomas Thorburn -- Notes on economic analysis for solving language problems / Björn H. Jernudd -- A tentative classification of language-planning aims / Chaim Rabin -- Instrumentalism in language planning / Einar Haugen -- Research strategies and a view towards the future : research outline for comparative studies of language planning / Joshua A. Fishman, Jyotirindra Das Gupta, Björn H. Jernudd, and Joan Rubin -- A view towards the future / Joan Rubin -- Some introductory references pertaining to language planning / Björn H. Jernudd and Joan Rubin.