<
 
 
 
 
ž
>
You are viewing an archived web page, collected at the request of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) using Archive-It. This page was captured on 01:08:45 Dec 30, 2015, and is part of the UNESCO collection. The information on this web page may be out of date. See All versions of this archived page.
Loading media information hide
  UNESCO.ORG The Organization Education Natural Sciences Social & Human Sciences Culture Communication & Information

Quick Link to this page: www.unesco.org/shs/ijms/vol4/issue2/art3
 
The Impact of Language Policy on Endangered Languages
 
Suzanne Romaine
 
Read this article

Abstract

Evaluation of the potential and actual impact of language policy on endangered languages is complicated by lack of straightforward causal connections between types of policy and language maintenance and shift, as well as by confusion of policy and planning. Language policy is not an autonomous factor and what appears to be ostensibly the .same. policy may lead to different outcomes, depending on the situation in which it operates. Weak linkages between policy and planning render many policies ineffective. Conventions and treaties adopted by international organisations and agencies recommending the use of minority languages in education usually lack power to reinforce them. Furthermore, policies have negligible impact on home use, which is essential for continued natural transmission of endangered languages. Although survival cannot depend on legislation as its main support, legal provisions may allow speakers of endangered languages to claim some public space for their languages and cultures.

Suggested bibliographic reference for this article:

Romaine, Suzanne. The Impact of Language Policy on Endangered Languages. IJMS: International Journal on Multicultural Societies. 2002, vol. 4, no.2, pp. 194-212. UNESCO. ISSN 1817-4574. www.unesco.org/shs/ijms/vol4/issue2/art3
 

Read full article http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001387/138795E.pdf#page=49
Periodical Name IJMS, Vol.4, No. 2
Publication date 2002
Number of pages pp. 194-212





  Email this page     Printable version

Quick Link to this page: www.unesco.org/shs/ijms/vol4/issue2/art3

 
  Email this page
 Printable version

 
  Resources

 Subscribe to mailing list