Progress in
Language Planning

Volume 31 in Mouton’s Contributions to the Sociology of Language, edited by Juan Cobarrubias and JOSHUA A. FISHMAN. ISBN 90-279-3358-8; paperback 90-279-3388-X; typeset by Asian Research Service, Hong Kong, printed in Berlin, cover design by K. Lothar Hildebrand. Its five parts move from decision-making to codification, then to North America, implementation and evaluation — CHARLES A. FERGUSON on language planning and language change, Shirley Brice Heath and Frederick Mandabach on status decisions and the law, Fishman on modelling rationales in corpus planning, BRAJ B. KACHRU on “Models of New Englishes”, William F. Mackey, Denise Daoust-Blais, Bernard Spolsky and Lorraine Boomer on the modernization of Navajo, EINAR HAUGEN on implementing corpus planning, Dayle Barnes on China, Glyn Lewis on the Soviet Union, and Joan Rubin and Björn Jernudd asking what the past decade accomplished. The most directly useful book in the collection for anyone working on Nigerian language policy.