Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"Joshua Fishman is the most well-known and respected scholar in the world of language planning/policy studies. His work is universally read and is considered essential for all courses in the field. This book fills an important gap in language planning, and will receive wide attention from scholars and students alike."--James Tollefson, International Christian University, Japan
"Joshua Fishman is a key figure in the fields of sociolinguistics and language planning and policy...I have no doubt that this book will be influential and highly read. Fishman is poised to make yet another important contribution to the field."--Kendall King,
Georgetown University