Language Planning and Ecolinguistics:Origins,Interfaces and Developments
Language planning is a discipline that seeks to address the needs of nations and societies by regulating and optimizing languages.Ecolinguistics investigates the interplay among language users,languages and their environments.Language planning is grounded in language ecology,which is,in turn,greatly influenced by language planning itself.Nevertheless,their relationship remains unclear due to the lack of a systematic literature review.An integrative literature review spanning from the 1950s to the present can provide a comprehensive overview of the origins,interfaces and developments of language planning and ecolinguistics.The origins of both disciplines can be traced back to Einar Haugen,a Nor-wegian-American linguist,who coined the ecological concepts and tried to apply them into language plan-ning.Since the mid-1980s,language planning has undergone an"ecological turn",with the emergence of metaphorical paradigm in ecolinguistics symbolizing the interface between language planning and ecolin-guistics.From the 1990s to the present,the"discursive turn"in language planning and the rise of non-metaphorical paradigm in ecolinguistics signify a new trend in their mutual development.This evolution is expected to continue manifesting across various topics,including the assessments and planning of lan-guage ecology,the documentation of language resources,and the micro-analysis of policy discourse.
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