담론으로 접근하는 언어정책탐구 연구방법: 비판적/담론적 전환으로부터

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This paper is intended to show that LPP (language planning and policy) is a multilayered phenomenon constituted and practiced in and through discourse. It gives a brief history of four different approaches to LPP research. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the exercise of language planning led to or was directed by the promulgation of a language policy by the government or other authoritative bodies. However, LPP is itself an instance of social change. It deems activities that move upwards as well as downwards. The field of LPP has been subject to a series of critical and discursive turns for the last decades. In the early 1990s, the CLP (critical language policy) emerged as a response to earlier language planning work. However, it has been criticized for being too deterministic and underestimating the power of human agency. Drawing on CDS (critical discourse studies), this study explicates how LPP has been interconnected with discourse beyond the text. Drawing from interdisciplinary literature related to LPP, it is argued that the contemporary DILP (discursive inquires to language policy) combines the macro and micro, offers a balance between policy power and interpretative agency from ethnographic research methods. Moreover, it can be committed to multicultural and multilingual issues in Korea, especially those that pertain the rights of indigenous and minority language speakers.

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