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Publication details [#46494]

Brown, N. Anthony. 2007. Status Language Planning in Belarus: An Examination of Written Discourse in Public Spaces. Language Policy 6 (2) : 281–301.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language planning | language status | sign | social status | written language

Language as a subject

Belarusian | Russian

Place, Publisher

Springer

Annotation

This study explores the treatment of Russian and Belarusian on signs in the Minsk metro and on official signs on government buildings. These data illuminate governmental language status planning efforts and illustrate changes generated by past and actual language policies.