Language Planning Agency in China: From the Perspective of the Language Academies

Autor/inn/en	Zhao, Shouhui; Shang, Guowen
Titel	Language Planning Agency in China: From the Perspective of the Language Academies
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Language Planning, 17 (2016) 1, S.23-35 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1747-7506
DOI	10.1080/14664208.2015.1094386
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Language Planning; Second Language Instruction; Politics of Education; Official Languages; Language Maintenance; Chinese; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sprachwechsel; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Office language; Amtssprache; Sprachpflege; China; Chinesen
Abstract	Prof. Baldauf was one of the first who saw the planning agency as a central issue in examining the effectiveness of language planning (LP) endeavors (e.g. Baldauf, R. B. Jr. (1982). "The language situation in American Samoa: Planners, plans and planning." "Language Planning Newsletter," 1(8), 1-6). This paper chooses the language academy (LA) as a representation of language agency and examines its role in Chinese LP in modern history. China does not have an LA in the sense the term is used elsewhere in the world as Kaplan and Baldauf [(1997). "Language planning from practice to theory." Clevedon: "Multilingual Matters"] describe. However, a constellation of official or semi-official LP organizations of various LA formats related to Chinese LP has existed through a century of the Chinese language modernization movement. This paper evaluates the efforts of these organizations with a focus on the interaction between the LP activities, the LP agency and socio-political conditions. We argue that the socio-political landscape as an enabler for LP in China has seen phenomenal changes as a result of the economic development and technological advancement in recent decades; the societal behavior of the people as the targeted recipients of LP goods has been increasingly governed by a postmodernist mentality. In this context, this paper concludes that a national LA would enhance the effectiveness of future LP ventures in the Chinese context. (As Provided).
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