Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Ernest Andrews

   Pages 1-35

3. Language Planning: Theoretical Background

   • Ernest Andrews

   Pages 37-65

4. Language Planning and Policy in China: Unity, Diversity and Social Control

   • Fengyuan Ji

   Pages 67-92

5. Language Policy in Russia: Nation, Nationalism, and Language

   • Joan F. Chevalier

   Pages 93-118

6. Language Policy and Power Politics in Post-Soviet Tatarstan

   • Teresa Wigglesworth-Baker

   Pages 119-144

7. Language Policy and Hegemony in the Turkic Republics

   • Ayse Dietrich

   Pages 145-167

8. Language Policy in Independent Ukraine: A Battle for National and Linguistic Empowerment

   • Vladislava Reznik

   Pages 169-192

9. Lithuanian Language Planning: A Battle for Language and Power

   • Loreta Vaicekauskienė, Nerijus Šepetys

   Pages 193-218

10. Language Planning in Latvia as a Struggle for National Sovereignty

    • Andrejs Veisbergs

    Pages 219-240

11. The Polish Language Act: Legislating a Complicated Linguistic-Political Landscape

    • Magda Stroińska, Ernest Andrews

    Pages 241-260

12. Language Planning in Slovakia: Nation-Building in the Context of European Integration

    • Marián Sloboda, Lucia Molnár Satinská, Mira Nábělková

    Pages 261-286

13. Forms of Language Planning and Policy in the Czech Republic

    • Hana Srpova

    Pages 287-308

14. Back Matter

    Pages 309-316

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This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the attempts of language experts and governments to control language use and development in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China through planned activities generally known as language planning or language policy. The ten case studies presented here examine language planning in China, Russia, Tatarstan, Central Asia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and focus in particular on developments and disputes that have occurred since the ‘fall of communism’ and the emergence of a new order in the late 1980s. Its authors highlight the dominant issues with which language planning is invariably intertwined. These include power politics, tensions between ‘official language’ and ‘minority languages’, and the effects of a country’s particular political, social, cultural and psychological environment. Offering a detailed account of the socio-political and ideological developments that underlie language planning in these regions, this book will provide a valuable resource for students and scholars of linguistics, cultural studies, political science, sociology and history.

• Language Planning
• Language Policy
• communist bloc
• fall of communism
• linguistic control
• China
• Russia
• Tatarstan
• Ukraine
• Lithuania
• Latvia
• Poland
• Slovakia
• Czech Republic
• Central Asian Republics
• linguistic diversity
• multilingual education
• nation-building
• Ethnolinguistics
• minority languages

“The book presents a series of country studies that give a historical account of ‘the evolution of the country’s ‘national’ language’, and, of language planning activities since the ‘start of the Perestroika reforms in the Soviet Bloc in the late 1980s’ … . this volume offer plenty of reference points, while the post-communist country descriptions emphasizing legislative events and institutions equally offer fine entry points for readers to pursue in-depth study of their own.” (Björn Jernudd, Language Policy, Vol. 18, 2019)

• Department of Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA

  Ernest Andrews

Ernest Andrews is Visiting Scholar at the Department of Linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington, USA. His previous publications include Linguistic Changes in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Eurasia (2008), and Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era: The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia and China (2011).

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