Language planning and development aid: the (in)visibility of language in development aid discourse
Language planning and development aid: the (in)visibility of language in development aid discourse
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语言规划和发展援助：发展援助话语中语言的可见性
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2017
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C. Benson
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Kerry Taylor;C. Benson
摘要尽管地方、区域、国家和国际语言在人类发展中起着至关重要的作用，但在发展援助的论述中很少提到语言规划。本文从发展援助和语言规划的定义入手，考察了前殖民时代和后殖民时代两者是如何联系在一起的，展示了语言规划学术是如何应对随着时间的推移对发展理解的总体变化的。虽然我们发现语言规划在人类发展文件中保持低调，但我们注意到教科文组织和儿童基金会继续支持语言问题的一些积极迹象。我们将这种支持与世界银行对可衡量结果的关注进行了对比。最后，我们分析了对这一特别问题的贡献如何体现了全球时代发展的语文规划所固有的一些紧张关系。
ABSTRACT Despite the essential role of local, regional, national and international languages in human development, there is little reference to language planning in development aid discourse. Beginning with definitions of development aid and language planning, the paper examines how the two were linked in pre- and post-colonial times, showing how language planning scholarship has responded to the overarching shifts in understandings of development over time. While we find that language planning maintains a low profile in human development documents, we note some positive signs in UNESCO’s and UNICEF’s continuing support for language issues. We contrast this support with the World Bank’s concern with measurable outcomes. We conclude with an analysis of how the contributions to this special issue exemplify some of the tensions inherent in language planning for development in a global age.