Language policy
- This chapter familiarises readers with main concepts of language policy and planning (LPP) from an LL perspective. The chapter provides an overview of the development of the understanding of LPP, culminating in an up-to-date definition. Then, it visualises relations between the LL and LPP through an application of the Holistic Ecolinguistic Model for the Analysis of Language Policy (HEMALP). As a case in point, the paper provides insight into two LL projects conducted in 2022 in Latvia: First, an analysis of the semiotics and languages used during protests against the Russian war and crimes in Ukraine shows how a changing geopolitical situation may trigger LPP changes, e.g. with regard to the tolerance of vulgarisms and the roles of Russian, English and of multilingual signs in general. Second, an LL study in a rural parish in Eastern Latvia reveals changing practices of Latvian, Latgalian, English and Russian and identity-related semiotics, pointing to public space as a palimpsest of language policies.
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| Author: | Sanita MartenaORCiDGND, Heiko F. MartenORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-128591 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-3502-7252-1 |
| Parent Title (English): | The Bloomsbury handbook of linguistic landscapes |
| Series (Serial Number): | Bloomsbury Handbooks (-) |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Place of publication: | London |
| Editor: | Robert BlackwoodORCiDGND, Stefania TufiORCiDGND, Will AmosORCiDGND |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/10/11 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) [Zweitveröffentlichung] |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | Holistic Ecolinguistic Model for the Analysis of Language Policy (HEMALP); LPP; Latgalian; Latvia; Ukraine; invasion of Ukraine; language planning; status planning |
| GND Keyword: | Geopolitik; Hochlettisch; Identität; Lettland; Linguistic Landscape; Russisch; Russisch-Ukrainischer Krieg; Sprachpolitik |
| First Page: | 252 |
| Last Page: | 268 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Sprachpolitik |
| Program areas: | Zentrale Forschung |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |