Making language policy: Australia’s experience
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This paper describes the Australian experience in formulating a national language policy and analyses some of the more important features of the policy and of the process which led to its adoption. The description of the process, and any generalisable validity it may contain, may be a valuable contribution which the Australian experience can offer to language policy (theory and practice) in the world. The development and acceptance of the national policy on languages has been essentially a process of status attribution. It was the evolution of a language constituency which was sufficiently coherent and strong to find unifying common ground among widely disparate groups which, ultimately, was the determining factor in bringing about the acceptance of the policy by government.
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