The power of folk linguistic knowledge in language policy

What is it about?

This paper proves that what people claim to know as facts and logics about language and linguistics as non-experts - and not just their attitudes and ideologies - informs local discourses, ideas and justifications about how and why language arrangements are managed.

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Why is it important?

The paper proves that language policy theory should be augmented to account for the power and influence of what folk linguistic knowledge in language policy discourses, ideas and decisions. This is important because language policy theory recognises that non-linguists do language policy, too.