Insecurities in Language Policy and Planning

Sinfree Makoni is Director of African Studies, Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.Cristine Gorski Severo is an Associate Professor at Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil and a CNPq national Fellow. Ashraf Abdelhay works for the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, as an Associate Professor in the program of Linguistics and Arabic Lexicography.Alissa J. Hartig is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, USA.

This volume is a veritable tour de force. It brings out the complexities and pitfalls of Language Policy and Planning, starting with the pervasive slipperiness of key concepts found lacking in operational definition. The contributors highlight the significance of bringing into the equation the often-sidelined voices from the Global South.

• ContributorsJosé del Valle: PrefaceSinfree Makoni, Ashraf Abdelhay and Cristine Severo: IntroductionChapter 1. Bernard Spolsky: Continued Thoughts on Language Policy   Chapter 2. Michal Tannenbaum and Elana Shohamy: A New Multilingual Educational Policy in Israel: The Role of Research as a Contributing Factor  Chapter 3. Rochelle Pinto: Becoming a Language of StateChapter 4. Ben Rampton, Daniel Silva and Constadina Charalambous: Sociolinguistics and Securitization as Another Mode of Governance  Chapter 5. Nicholas Faraclas: Longue Durée and Durée Profonde: Udumu, Utu and Bringing Language Back to Earth  Chapter 6. Joseph Gafaranga: Doing Translanguaging, Unknowingly and Differently  Chapter 7. Chaoqun Lian: Metaphorical Language Policy and Language Politics in the Arabic-Speaking World  Chapter 8. Yonatan Mendel: Arabic in Israel: The Consequences of Harnessing Language for SecurityChapter 9. Yasir Suleiman-Malley: Language and Conflict in the Israeli–Palestinian Sphere: The View from BelowChapter 10. Folúkẹ́ Adébísí: [Un]making the Wretched of the Earth: Can We Aim Towards Testamentary Life Within Legal Knowledge?  Chapter 11. David Karlander and Linus Salö: Historicizing ‘Semilingualism’: On the Theoretical Origins of a Linguistic PathologyChapter 12. Frances Vavrus: Schooling as Uncertainty: An Ethnographic MemoirChapter 13. Priyadarshani Joshi: An Exploration of the Causes and Consequences of Private Schooling Expansion: Global Trends and Research Findings from Nepal  Chapter 14. Peter Mayo: Twenty Years' Engagement in Postcolonial Education: A RetrospectiveChapter 15. Mama Adobea Nii Owoo: From Unarchiving to Unbooking: How the Film No Vernacular Rethinks Language Policy Research for Global South Contexts Ezra Nhampoca: EpilogueIndex