What is “Implicit Language Policy”?

Fang Xiaobing

Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning ›› 2021, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (5) : 91-96.

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Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning ›› 2021, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (5) : 91-96. DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210507

What is “Implicit Language Policy”?

  • Fang Xiaobing
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Implicit language policy is a language policy that has no explicit text or discourse support, but is characterized as a certain practical mechanism in language life. Through analysis of the term, we find that: (1) Language ideology cannot be regarded as an implicit policy, as any language policy must have a substantive mechanism that can be attached to; (2) A micro-language policy is in terms of the level and scale of the policy, which can be explicit in form, thus unnecessarily an implicit language policy; (3) A covert language policy can have explicit legal texts, though the policy intentions are deliberately obscured, so it is not equivalent to implicit language policy; (4) Explicitness and implicitness constitute a continuum, and many language policies are actually between the two ends.

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implicit language policy / covert language policy / micro language policy / language ideology / terminology

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Fang Xiaobing. What is “Implicit Language Policy”?[J]. Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning. 2021, 6(5): 91-96 https://doi.org/10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210507

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