Historical models in the study of language policy problems
Abstract
Historical models in the study of language policy problems
Incoming article date: 06.01.2022This article highlights conceptual models that contribute to assessing the effectiveness of language policy from historical perspective. The use of the comparative historical approach has allowed us to identify the most effective forms of language policy in the modern national situational context. The authors place a special emphasis in the article on the critical analysis of a number of historical models that have long acted as the main tool for assessing the effectiveness of language policy in the West. The novelty of the article lies in the discovery of new modes of measuring the effectiveness of the principles of language policy and planning applied in practice. The article also make sa strong case for understanding language as an active means of social reality in all the diversity of its forms and relationships.
Keywords: language policy, language planning, comparative historical approach, historical narrative, historical consciousness, eurocentric model, cultural center, peripheral regions, deductive methods, inductive methods, modernism, postmodernism