1. The Need for Language Policy and Planning
... of nation-state formation (see for example Ferguson, 1962; Fishman, Ferguson, & Das Gupta, 1968; Pool, 1972; Rubin & Jernudd, 1971). The focus of language planning activities were related to issues of creating national unity, developing and maintaining effective communication within emerging nations and other similar macro-level language questions facing a society, which demanded national level actions and the intervention of official bodies. The ... local issues of language planning at a micro-level, for example question of local language development, minor, tribal languages, etc. were...
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