This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity with a wide range of language cases.

Contents: Preface. Introduction to Language Planning: Some Preliminaries. Corpus Planning and Status Planning: Separates, Opposites, or Siamese Twins? The Directions and Dimensions of Corpus Planning. Purity Versus Vernacularity: Does Folksiness Come Before or After Cleanliness? The Bipolar Dimension of Uniqueness Versus Westernization. The Classicization Versus Panification Bipolar Dimension. The Ausbau Versus Einbau Bipolar Dimension (or, Must the Lamb Look Unlike the Wolf in Order Not to Be Mistaken for the Wolf?). The Interdependence and Independence of Dimensional Clusters. Can Opposites and Incommensurables Be Combined? Epilogue: Some Things OLD and Some Things NEW, and Some Things BORROWED on Which to Chew. Appendices: Questions for In-Class Discussion or Written Assignment. A Terminology Committee at Work.