Amery,R. Warrabarna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian Language.
Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 2000. Pp. xviii + 289. ISBN 90-265-1633-9 (hbk): Dfl 120/US$63
[Reviewed by Michael Walsh, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 2&3, 2001
Ammon,U. ed.).The Dominance of English as a Language of Science. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. xiii + 478. ISBN 3-11-016647-X (hbk).
[Reviewed by Brian Ridge, Dept. of Humanities & International Studies, University of Southern Queensland, Australia]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 3:3, 2002, 351-355
Blommaert, Jan.State Ideology and Language in Tanzania. East African Languages and Dialects; Vol. 10). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1999. Pp 204. ISBN 3-89645-024-7: 34,77 EUR.
[Reviewed by Paulin G. Djité, Palmes Académiques, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Western Sydney, Australia.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 3:1, 2002, 82-87
Bratt Paulston, Christina and Peckham, Donald eds.). Linguistic Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe.< Clevedon / Philadelphia / Toronto / Sydney / Johannesburg: Multilingual Matters Ltd, 1998. Pp. xiv + 289. ISBN 1-85359-416-4 (hbk): _49.95 / US$79,95.
[Reviewed by CsabaFöldes, University of Veszprém, Department of German Language and Literature, Vesprém, Hungary.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2:2 &3, 2001, 296-300
Clark, Urzula. War Words: Language, History and the Disciplining of English.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001. Pp. xi + 309. ISBN: 0-08-043650-1 (hbk): US $89.00.
[Reviewed by Robert B. Kaplan (Emeritus), Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, USA.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 2&3, 2001, 305-309
de Mejía , Anne-Marie and Tovar , Lionel Antonio. Perspectivas recientes del bilingüismo y de la educación bilingüe en Colombia (1999).
Santiago de Cali, Colombia: Unidade de Artes Gráficas de la Universidade del Valle. Pp. 238. ISBN 958-670-153-0 (pbk).
[Reviewed by Ana Antônia de Assis-Peterson, Federal University of Mato Grosso and Maria Inês Pagliarini Cox, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 2&3, 2001, 278-285
Deprez, Kas and Du Plessis, Theo (eds). Multilingualism and Government. Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Former Yugoslavia, South Africa.
(Studies in Language Policy in South Africa). Hatfield, Pretoria. Van Schalk Publishers, 2000. Pp xii + 179. ISBN 0 627 02478 5: 119, 95 Rand.
[Reviewed by Anne Pauwels, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 3: 1, 2002, 88-90
Extra, Guus and Gorter, Durk (eds.).The Other Languages of Europe. Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives.
Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2001. Pp. x + 454. ISBN 1-85359-510-1 (hbk): _49.95. ISBN 1-85359-509-8 pbk): _16.95.
[Reviewed by Jeroen Darquennes. Research Centre on Multilingualism, K.U. Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 4, 2001, 278-285
Fill, A. & Mühlhäusler (eds.). The Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology and Environment.
London/New York: Continuum, 2003. Pp. 296. ISBN 0-8264-4912-3 (hbk).
[Reviewed by Andrea Gerbig, Department of English, University of Trier, Germany]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 4: 1, 2003, 91-93
Fishman, J. A.Can Threatened Languages Be Saved?.Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2001. Pp. xvi + 503. ISBN 1-85359-493-8 (cloth).
[Reviewed by Colin H. Williams, Cardiff University, Department of Welsh.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 3: 3, 2002, 356-358
Kamwangamalu, Nkonko M. ed.). Language and Ethnicity in the New South Africa. (An issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 144).
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. Pp. 138.
[Reviewed by Christa van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 2&3, 2001, 300-302
López L.E. and Jung , I. eds.).
Sobre las Huellas de la Voz.
Madrid: Ediciones Morata S.L., 1998. Pp. 255. ISBN 84-7112-441-6 pbk).
[Reviewed by Anne-Marie de Mejía, Universidad del Valle, Colombia.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 1, 2001, 128-132
May S. (ed.). Indigenous Community-based Education.
Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1999. Pp. 180. ISBN 1-85359-450-4 (hbk): _29.95 / $49.95.
[Reviewed by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, University of Roskilde, Denmark]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 2&3, 2001, 268-278
Mar-Milinaro, C. The Politics of Language in the Spanish-speaking World.
London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xii + 242. ISBN 0-415-15655-6 (pbk) ISBN 0-415-15654-8 (hbk).
[Reviewed by Angéline Martel, Montréal, Canada.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 3: 3, 2002, 348-350
Nettle, David and Romaine, Suzanne.
Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x + 241. ISBN 0-19-513624-1 (hbk): _19.99. ISBN 0-19-515246-8 pbk): _8.99.
[Reviewed by Terry Crowley, Department of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 2&3, 2001, 291-295
Nyati-Ramahobo Lydia.
The National Language: A Resource or a Problem? The Implementation of the Language Policy of Botswana.
Gabrorone: Pula Press, 1999. Pp. v + 199. ISBN 9-9912-6155-9 (pbk). P 50.00 (c. 24.00 DM).
[Reviewed by Birgit Smieja, Gerhard-Mercator University, Duisburg, Germany.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 1, 2001, 119-128
Poon, Anita Y.K.
Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong.
Oxford: University Press of America: Lanham, MD, 2000. Pp. xxii + 417. ISBN 0-7618-1797-2 (hbk): US $46,00.
[Reviewed by Yin Bing Leung, Department of Asian Languages, Stanford University, USA.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 2&3, 2001, 303-305
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove.
Linguistic Genocide in Education &endash; or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?
New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000. Pp. xxxi + 785.
[Reviewed by John C. Maher, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 2: 2&3, 2001, 286-291
Smit, Ute.
A New English for a New South Africa? Language Attitudes, Language Planning and Education.
Wien: Braumüller, 1996. ISBN 3-7003-1126-5.
[Reviewed by Brian Ridge, Arts Faculty, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.]
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 3: 1, 2002, 91-93
Vakhtin,N.B.
Iazyki Narodov Severa v XX Veke: Ocherki iazykovogo sdviga (Languages of the People of the North in the XX Century: Essays on Language Shift).
St Petersburg: Dmitry Bulanin, 2001. Pp. 338. ISBN 5-86007-298-8.
[Reviewed by Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, School of European Languages and Cultures, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Current Issues in Language Planning Vol 3: 3, 2002, 346-348