Subject: new book : language planning

michael clyne ( editor ) undoing and redoing corpus planning 1997 . 23 x 15 , 5 cm . viii , 520 pages cloth dm 198 , - / approx . us $ 141 . 00 isbn 3-11 - 015509 - 5 contributions to the sociology of language 78 mouton de gruyter * berlin * new york this book is a collection of sixteen original articles on language planning in the wake of sociopolitical change . each chapter covers a different language which underwent changes due to deliberate planning which has recently been rescinded or replaced by further planning for sociopolitical reasons ( e . g . , the collapse of the soviet bloc , the unification of germany and of vietnam , the abolition of apartheid ) . a theoretical epilogue draws together the findings into a general model . the volume contributes to the study of language and society and language change . contents michael clyne , introduction * alexander krouglov , ukrainian - reconstituting a language * miklos kontra , ` stubborn as a mule calls for dialectical presentation ' : on undoing and redoing corpus planning in hungary * john m . lipski , linguistic consequences of the sandinista revolution and its aftermath in nicaragua * s . m . lee - wong , undoing some effects of the cultural revolution - chinese address forms * michael clyne , the reconvergence of german after reunification and its limits * nguyen xuan thu , the reconvergence of vietnamese * radoslav katicic , undoing a ` unified language ' : bosnian , serbian , croatian * marcu gabinschi , reconvergence of moldavian towards romanian * ernst hakon jahr , the fate of samnorsk : a social dialect experiment in language planning * kas deprez , diets , nederlands , nederduits , hollands , vlaams , belgisch - nederlands * andrew gonzalez , from pilipino to filipino _ 1 to filipino _ 2 : unmaking and remaking a national language * rakhmiel peltz , the undoing of language planning from the vantage of cultural history : two twentieth century yiddish examples * hendrik boeschoten , the turkish language reform forced into stagnation * ran hacohen , influence of the middle east peace process on the hebrew language * hassan r . s . abd - el - jawad and fawwaz al - abed al - haq , the impact of the peace process in the middle east on arabic * d . j . van schalkwyk , eradicating racism in language - afrikaans * michael clyne , epilogue * list of contributors * index of names * index of subjects _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mouton de gruyter walter de gruyter , inc . postfach 30 34 21 200 saw mill river road d-10728 berlin hawthorne , ny 10532 germany usa fax : + 49 ( 0 ) 30 26005-351 fax : + 1 914 747-1326 email : 100064 . 2307 @ compuserve . com publications by de gruyter can also be ordered via world wide web : http : / / www . degruyter . de
