This volume covers the language situation in Hungary, Finland, and Sweden explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of minority and migrant languages. The authors have been participants in the language planning context in these polities.
Innehållsförteckning
Series Overview
Robert B. Kaplan and Richard B. Baldauf Jr.: Language Policy and Planning in Hungary, Finland and Sweden: Some Common Issues
Péter Medgyes and Katalin Miklósy: The Language Situation in Hungary
Péter Medgyes and Katalin Miklósy: The Language Situation in Hungary: An Update
Sirkku Latomaa and Pirkko Nuolijärvi: The Language Situation in Finland
Birger Winsa: Language Planning in Sweden
Biographical Notes on Contributors
Om författaren
Richard B. Baldauf, Jr is Associate Professor of TESOL in the School of Education at the University of Queensland and a member of the Executive of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). He has published numerous articles in refereed journals and books. He is co-editor of Language Planning and Education in Australasia and the South Pacific (Multilingual Matters, 1990), principal researcher and editor for the Viability of Low Candidature LOTE Courses in Universities (DEET, 1995), co-author with Robert B. Kaplan of Language Planning from Practice to Theory (Multilingual Matters, 1997) and Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin (Kluwer, 2003), and co-author with Zhao Shouhui of Planning Chinese Characters: Revolution, Evolution or Reaction (Springer, 2007).