language policy
Let an agent explain language policy and its instruments, relay national and organisational policies from official sources, present debates on rights and unification with attribution, and distinguish language policy from language planning and linguistics.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain language policy and its instruments, relay national and organisational policies from official sources, present debates on rights and unification with attribution, and distinguish language policy from language planning and linguistics.
The set of decisions by states, organisations or companies about which languages are used, taught, promoted or restricted in government, education, media, courts and workplaces, including official language laws, minority language protections, standardisation and linguistic unification, the multilingual policy of the European Union, national policies such as those of Norway, Sweden and Israel, and corporate language policies; language policy is studied in sociolinguistics and is often politically contested.
What it is for: Managing language use in public and organisational life.
It can be explain instruments and kinds; relay specific policies; present debates neutrally; distinguish from related concepts.
Distinguishing features
Status, corpus and acquisition dimensions
Legal instruments
Rights dimension
Political contestation
What it looks like
Not a visible object; laws, regulations and organisational rules.
How it is recognised
Decisions about language use and status
Official languages, minority rights, education, corporate policies
Language planning is the implementation; linguistics describes languages
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is implemented by - the practical side
is studied by - the field
is governed by - in Europe
In practice
Families and kinds
official and national language laws
minority and indigenous language protections
education language policies
supranational policies such as the European Union multilingualism
national policies of Norway, Sweden, Israel and others
corporate language policies
linguistic unification and standardisation projects
Standards and regulation
National constitutions and language laws
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
UN declarations on minority and indigenous rights
EU regulation on official languages
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting contested policies as settled
Suppression of minority languages
Stale legal information
Confusing policy with planning
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What language policy is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and dimensions.
Definition
Definition.
- What is language policy, and what are its status, corpus and acquisition dimensions? definition
- Is the question about policy, planning or linguistics? boundary
Instruments
Instruments.
Instruments
Instruments.
- What instruments do policies use, from official status to education and media rules? definition
- Which entry fits the specific instrument? action
Cases Policies by country and organisation.
Sources.
National
National policies.
National
National.
- What are the language policies of countries such as Norway, Sweden and Israel, from official sources? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific country? action
Organisations
EU and corporate policies.
Organisations
Organisations.
- How do the European Union and companies set language policy? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Debate Rights and debates.
Attribution.
Rights
Language rights.
Rights
Rights.
- What rights frameworks protect minority languages, and how are they applied, with attribution? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Unification
Unification and standardisation.
Unification
Unification.
- What debates surround linguistic unification and standardisation, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Research and history.
Context.
Research
Research.
Research
Research.
- How do sociolinguists study language policy and its effects? provenance
- Which entry fits sociolinguistics? action
History
History.
History
History.
- How have language policies developed with nation-building and decolonisation, as historians describe? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of language policy? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should national policies be separate entries?
- How should legal sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific policies and a corporate sense; should they be split off?