Language Policy

Journal Title：Language Policy

Language Policy is highly relevant to scholars, students, specialists and policy-makers working in the fields of applied linguistics, language policy, sociolinguistics, and language teaching and learning. The journal aims to contribute to the field by publishing high-quality studies that build a sound theoretical understanding of the field of language policy and cover a range of cases, situations and regions worldwide.

A distinguishing feature of this journal is its focus on various dimensions of language educational policy. Language education policy includes decisions about which languages are to be used as a medium of instruction and/or taught in schools, as well as analysis of these policies within their social, ethnic, religious, political, cultural and economic contexts.

The journal aims to continue its tradition of bringing together solid scholarship on language policy and language education policy from around the world but also to expand its direction into new areas. The editors are very interested in papers that explore language policy not only at national levels but also at the institutional levels of schools, workplaces, families, health services, media and other entities. In particular, we welcome theoretical and empirical papers with sound qualitative or quantitative bases that critically explore how language policies are developed at local and regional levels, as well as on how they are enacted, contested and negotiated by the targets of that policy themselves. We seek papers on the above topics as they are researched and informed through interdisciplinary work within related fields such as education, anthropology, politics, linguistics, economics, law, history, ecology, and geography. We particularly are interested in papers from lesser-covered parts of the world of Africa and Asia.

Specifically we encourage papers in the following areas:

Detailed accounts of promoting and managing language (education) policy (who, what, why, and how) in local, institutional, national and global contexts.

Research papers on the development, implementation and effects of language policies, including implications for minority and majority languages, endangered languages, lingua francas and linguistic human rights;

Accounts of language policy development and implementation by governments and governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations and business enterprises, with a critical perspective (not only descriptive).

Accounts of attempts made by ethnic, religious and minority groups to establish, resist, or modify language policies (language policies 'from below');

Theoretically and empirically informed papers addressing the enactment of language policy in public spaces, cyberspace and the broader language ecology (e.g., linguistic landscapes, sociocultural and ethnographic perspectives on language policy);

Review pieces of theory or research that contribute broadly to our understanding of language policy, including of how individual interests and practices interact with policy.

We also welcome proposals for special guest-edited thematic issues on any of the topics above, and short commentaries on topical issues in language policy or reactions to papers published in the journal.

《语言政策》与应用语言学、语言政策、社会语言学以及语言教学和学习领域的学者、学生、专家和政策制定者息息相关。该期刊旨在通过发表高质量的研究成果来为该领域做出贡献，这些研究成果建立了对语言政策领域的坚实理论理解，并涵盖了全球范围内的一系列案例、情况和地区。

该期刊的一个显著特点是它关注语言教育政策的各个方面。语言教育政策包括决定哪些语言将用作教学媒介和/或在学校教授，以及在社会、种族、宗教、政治、文化和经济背景下分析这些政策。

该期刊旨在继续其传统，汇集来自世界各地的语言政策和语言教育政策方面的扎实学术成果，同时也将其方向扩展到新的领域。编辑们对不仅在国家层面，而且在学校、工作场所、家庭、卫生服务、媒体和其他实体的机构层面探讨语言政策的论文非常感兴趣。我们尤其欢迎具有良好定性或定量基础的理论和实证论文，这些论文批判性地探讨语言政策在地方和区域层面的制定方式，以及政策目标本身如何制定、争论和协商这些政策。我们寻求有关上述主题的论文，因为它们是通过教育、人类学、政治、语言学、经济学、法律、历史、生态学和地理等相关领域的跨学科工作进行研究和形成的。我们尤其对来自非洲和亚洲等较少被报道地区的论文感兴趣。

具体来说，我们鼓励以下领域的论文：

在地方、机构、国家和全球背景下促进和管理语言（教育）政策（谁、什么、为什么和如何）的详细说明。

关于语言政策的制定、实施和影响的研究论文，包括对少数民族和多数语言、濒危语言、通用语和语言人权的影响；

以批判性视角（而不仅仅是描述性）描述政府和政府机构、非政府组织和商业企业制定和实施语言政策的情况。

描述种族、宗教和少数民族群体建立、抵制或修改语言政策（“自下而上的”语言政策）的尝试；

从理论和实证角度探讨语言政策制定的论文公共空间、网络空间和更广泛的语言生态（例如语言景观、语言政策的社会文化和人种学视角）；

回顾有助于我们广泛理解语言政策的理论或研究，包括个人利益和实践如何与政策相互作用。

我们也欢迎就上述任何主题提出特别客座编辑专题提案，以及对语言政策热点问题的简短评论或对期刊上发表的论文的反应。

Language Policy创刊于2002年，由Springer Nature出版商出版，收稿方向涵盖Multiple全领域，此刊是该细分领域中属于非常不错的SCI期刊，在行业细分领域中学术影响力较大，专业度认可很高，所以对原创文章要求创新性较高，如果您的文章质量很高，可以尝试。平均审稿速度 ，影响因子指数1.4，该期刊近期没有被列入国际期刊预警名单，广大学者值得一试。