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Publication details [#56845]

Walsh, John. 2012. Language policy and language governance: a case-study of Irish language legislation. Language Policy 11 (4) : 323–341.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptualization | institutional context | language policy | language status | language use

Language as a subject

Irish

Place, Publisher

Springer

Annotation

It is argued that contradictory language beliefs between the 2003 Official Languages Act, favoring Irish language use for official purposes, and the language schemes of public bodies, might be tackled by an expanded conceptual framework of ‘language policy’, comprising ‘language governance’.