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Language Problems and Language PlanningVol. 31:2 (2007) ► pp.107–129
Language policy spread
Learning from health and social policy models
Except for a few large scale projects, language planners have tended to talk and argue among themselves rather than to see language policy development as an inherently political process. A comparison with a social policy example, taken from the United States, suggests that it is important to understand the problem and to develop solutions in the context of the political process, as this is where decisions will ultimately be made.
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