Fishman 1973

Fishman, Joshua A. 1973. "Language modernization and planning in comparison with other types of national modernization and planning." Language in Society. Interest level: lay specialist.

Review has the following purposes: To clarify the number of basic terms that reveal less consensus in the language planning literature than they do more generally in the social sciences. To introduce a large number of concepts, questions, and dimensions into the language planning field is more important.

Introduces those that have not yet found their way there from planning theory and planning research in other-than-language fields. In many respects, language planning and other-than-language planning face similar burdens and benefit from related social and organization circumstances on logical and impressionistic grounds (page 23).

Compares language planning with other types of development planning on the national level. Aspects of these two types of compared planning are

• their starting points (motivation)
• their goals (development, modernization, or westernization), and
• the difficulties encountered (unexpected consequences, priorities, values, and the role of planning and evaluation).

• Bibliography module: Fishman 1973
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): F
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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