{"id":426,"date":"2011-02-23T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/?p=426"},"modified":"2011-03-30T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:29:28","slug":"multilingualism-language-planning-and-language-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/2011\/02\/23\/multilingualism-language-planning-and-language-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Multilingualism, language planning, and language policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-527\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/files\/2011\/02\/thumb_multi.jpg\" \/>Through my work on Texas German I got interested in different aspects  surrounding multilingualism, most notably language planning and language  policy. My new research  project,  funded by a Humanities Research  Award  (College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin) and Fellowship for  Experienced Researchers (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) explores the  paradox of a state rich in language resources yet frequently  characterized by monolingual thinking and rhetoric.<!--more--> More specifically, I  am interested in the ways in which existing language resources in Texas  can be systematically consolidated and further developed for the  benefit of all citizens of the Lone Star State. A crucial aspect of this  research involves a comparison of language policies involving  linguistic minorities in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, and five  other countries. My detailed investigation of the advantages and  disadvantages of these different language policies will enable me to  arrive at a catalogue of language policy criteria that can be  systematically employed to protect and support linguistic minorities,  while at the same time benefiting linguistic majorities educationally  and economically (cf. Grin et al. 2010). My project presents a program  of systematic policy planning designed to use and expand the language  potential of the people of Texas, thereby leading to a more competitive  edge in the globalized world of the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through my work on Texas German I got interested in different aspects surrounding multilingualism, most notably language planning and language policy. My new research project, funded by a Humanities Research Award (College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin) and Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) explores the paradox of a state rich in language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-areas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/hcb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}