Discourse Planning

Abstract

Although discourse has always played a crucial role in the formation and implementation of language policy`, scholastic recognition of its importance was not apparent until the 1990s. Haarmann (1990:105–105) saw psychological preparation for the application of policy to practice as sufficiently independent of corpus and status planning to warrant a distinct analytical category, which he labeled ‘prestige planning’. Neustupný (1994:50) characterised planning as a process that begins with the discursive construction of language problem and ends with their discursive resolution. More recently, Tollefson (2002:5) has called on researchers to pay more attention to how policies mobilise public opinion, and Lo Bianco (2009:103) has highlighted how public texts, as constituents of performative action, shape social alignments behind policies.