"This volume examines the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world and deals with a wide range of language planning issues: corpus planning, language-in-education planning, prestige planning, and status planning."--BOOK JACKET.
Language Planning and Policy : Language Planning in Local Contexts
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"This volume examines the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world and deals with a wide range of language planning issues: corpus planning, language-in-education planning, prestige planning, and status planning."--BOOK JACKET.
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