Language policy
Subtitle: a systemic functional linguistic approach
By: Bingjun Yang and Rui Wang
Contributors: Wang, Rui, 1983- author
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9781315436937; 9781315436920; 9781138218840; 9781315436913; 9781315436906
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Language and languages; Study and teaching; Language policy; History; Language and education; Functionalism (Linguistics); Languages; Political aspects; Langage et langues; Étude et enseignement; Fonctionnalisme (Linguistique); Langues; Aspect politique; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Popular Culture
Description: In recent years, research has prospered in the study of language policy. However, there are still many problems behind this prosperity. For example, much of the research lacks theoretical intervention and neglects perspectives of linguistic theories. This book, a trailblazer for academic researchers in the fields of language policy and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as appliable linguistics, examines language policy from the perspective of SFL, which could provide different angles for language policy and offer a valuable attempt to test SFL as appliable linguistics. This book also explores many typical controversial issues in Chinese language policy with an SFL approach, such as ongoing conflicts between Putonghua and dialects. It not only addresses authentic problems emerging from the implementation process of Chinese language policy, but also has produced some feasible and customized suggestions to improve Chinese language policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: History of and approaches to language policy; title: Justifications for approaching language policy from the SFL perspective; title: The principles of an SFL approach to language policy; title: Approaching language policy from an SFL perspective; title: Case study 1 : language policy in early years of PRC; title: Case study 2 : language policy in modern times of PRC; title: Conclusions.