The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning is a comprehensive and authoritative survey, including original contributions from leading senior scholars and rising stars to provide a basis for future research in language policy and planning in international, national, regional and local contexts.
The handbook approaches language policy as public policy that can be studied through the policy cycle framework. It offers a systematic and research-informed view of actual processes and methods of design, implementation and evaluation.
With a substantial introduction, 38 chapters and an extensive bibliography, this handbook is an indispensable resource for all decision makers, students and researchers of language policy and planning within linguistics and cognate disciplines such as public policy, economics, political science, sociology and education.
About the Author: Michele Gazzola is Lecturer in Public Policy and Administration at Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom, and co-director of the Centre for Public Administration at the same university. His research focuses on the analysis of language policy, and on the economic and social aspects of multilingualism. He is editor of Language Problems and Language Planning.
François Grin is Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Geneva. He has published widely on interdisciplinary approaches to language policy design and evaluation and has steered major national and international research projects in this area. He is Editor-in-Chief of Language Problems and Language Planning.
Linda Cardinal is Professor and Associate Vice-President Research at the Université de l'Ontario français (Toronto). She is also Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include language regimes and policies, Canadian language politics, citizenship debates and minorities.
Kathleen Heugh, Professor in Language Education and Multilingualism, in the Education Futures Unit at the University of South Australia, is a socio-applied linguist specialising in language policy and planning in Africa, Asia and Australia. Her research includes system-wide and multi-country studies of multilingual education and fieldwork in remote and post-conflict settings.
