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DO NOT LEAVE YOUR LANGUAGE ALONE: THE HIDDEN STATUS AGENDAS WITHIN CORPUS PLANNING IN LANGUAGE POLICY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2008

YouJin Kim
YouJin Kim
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Northern Arizona University
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DO NOT LEAVE YOUR LANGUAGE ALONE: THE HIDDEN STATUS AGENDAS WITHIN CORPUS PLANNING IN LANGUAGE POLICY.Joshua A. Fishman. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006. Pp. xi + 158. $22.50 paper.

Although it does not directly target the field of SLA, this volume provides invaluable information, related to various language practices in the world, that would enrich SLA researchers' knowledge. In language policy, making the distinction between corpus and status planning is one way to differentiate decisions relating to language use and language choice (Shohamy, 2006; Spolsky, 2004; Wright, 2004). In this volume, Fishman, however, notes that the two types of language planning are not as fundamentally separate as has traditionally been assumed to be the case; rather, they are linked in a variety of ways. According to Fishman, the nature and direction of corpus planning reflects and is guided by the status-planning environment.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 97 - 98
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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Fishman, J. (2000). The status agenda in corpus planning. In R. Lambert & E. Shohamy (Eds.), Language policy and pedagogy (pp. 43–51). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Shohamy, E. (2006). Language policy: Hidden agendas and new approaches. New York: Routledge.
Spolsky, B. (2004). Language policy: Key topics in sociolinguistics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Wright, S. (2004). Language policy and language planning: From nationalism to globalization. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.