"In recent years there has been increased interest in examining the treatment of language problems across different levels of society, ranging from individual interactional issues to language policy and planning at the national or supra-national level. Among the various approaches proposed to tackle this issue, Language Management Theory (LMT) provides a framework to address behaviour towards language problems on different levels explicitly and comprehensively. Using LMT as a unifying theoretical concept, this volume examines the links between micro and macro dimensions through the analysis of a variety of language problems. This body of work illustrates that the LMT framework is able to show the connection between these dimensions clearly, especially when combined with a conceptualization of the micro and macro dimensions as a continuum of intertwining elements. This volume will appeal to readers interested in individual management in discourse as well as those interested in language policy and planning"--.

• A Language Management Approach to Language Problems
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: What is a language management approach to language problems and why do we need it?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What is language management and why is it a useful concept?
  • 3. The position of LMT in relation to other approaches to language policy and planning
  • 4. Conceptualizations of the micro and macro in sociolinguistic research on language problems
  • 5. The conceptualization of the micro and macro in this volume
  • 6. The organization of this volume
  • References
• Part I. Theoretical perspectives of the management of language problems
• 2. The origin and development of a language management framework
  • 1. The concepts of LMT (language management theory) and LPT (language planning theory)
  • 2. The approach
  • 3. Background: The 1960’s
  • 4. Starting point and research organization
  • 5. Bundles of ideas and practices-made-visible: Two vectors in LMT development
    • 5.1 What language problems are there?
    • 5.2 How do individuals deal with language problems?
      • 5.2.1 Error correction and repair
      • 5.2.2 Noticing (in language learning)
      • 5.2.3 Individual evaluation and adjustment
      • 5.2.4 Reintroducing the subject(ive) and agency
  • 6. Summing up
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• 3. Research perspectives from East Asia: Language management in contact situations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The concept of the contact situation
  • 3. The impact of the discovery of the concept of contact situations
    • 3.1 Language management as an approach grounded in the micro-level
    • 3.2 Language management as process research
  • 4. Importance of languages-in-contact from the point of view of situation
  • 5. The significance of “contactedness” for further development of the theory of language management (LMT)
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • References
• 4. Researching language management in Central Europe: Cultivation, social change and power
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. How the approach was introduced and why and how it was able to find its place in the local research tradition
  • 3. The objects of research
  • 4. The other theories, approaches, or concepts used in combination with LM theory and corresponding methods
  • 5. The contributions to the theoretical development of the LM approach
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • References
• Part II. Managing language problems in contact situations
• 5. Intercultural interaction management: The case of Japanese and non-Japanese business professionals in the Japanese workplace
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Research on intercultural business discourse in the Japanese workplace
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Analysis
    • 4.1 Linguistic problems
    • 4.2 Sociolinguistic problems
    • 4.3 Sociocultural problems
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• 6. Language selection in contact situations: The case of international students in an English-medium science graduate program in Japan
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Research on contact situations
  • 3. Research on international students in Japan and their language use
  • 4. Methodology
  • 5. Analysis
    • 5.1 English lingua franca situations
      • 5.1.1 Communication with professors
      • 5.1.2 Communication among international students
      • 5.1.3 Helping other international students
    • 5.2 Japanese lingua franca situations
    • 5.3 Japanese partner language asymmetry
      • 5.3.1 Research equipment labels and manuals in the research laboratories
      • 5.3.2 Gatherings for Japanese and international graduate students (coffee time)
    • 5.4 Additional language symmetry situations in English and Japanese
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• 7. Diverging and intersecting management: Cases of the simultaneous management of deviations by multiple parties in contact situations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Examples of diverging and intersecting management in the past literature
  • 3. Towards a typology of diverging and intersecting management
    • 3.1 Diverging management at the noting stage
    • 3.2 Diverging management at the evaluation stage
    • 3.3 Diverging management at the adjustment stage
    • 3.4 Diverging management at the adjustment implementation and noting stages
    • 3.5 Intersecting management at the evaluation and noting stages
    • 3.6 Management intersecting at the adjustment implementation and noting stages
    • 3.7 Intersecting management at the adjustment implementation and norm formation stages
    • 3.8 Intersecting management at the adjustment implementation, noting and norm formation stages
  • 4. The micro-macro relationship in diverging and intersecting management
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Part III. Managing language problems relating to standard varieties
• 8. Processes of language codification: The case of the standardization of German pronunciation
  • 1. Introduction: German as a pluricentric language and pronunciation dictionaries
  • 2. Codifying pronunciation as a process of language management
  • 3. Language Codification Cycle Theory (LCCT)
  • 4. Attitudes toward standard national varieties
  • 5. German orthoepy and LCCT
    • 5.1 Orthoepic codes in Germany
    • 5.2 Orthoepic codification of German varieties
    • 5.3 Orthoepy in the framework of LCCT
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • References
• 9. Processes of destandardization and demotization in the micro-macro perspective: The case of Germanic languages
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Overview of the conceptual debate: Destandardization and demotization as processes related to language standardization
  • 3. The processual character of demotization and destandardization and their connection to sociocultural management
    • 3.1 Demotization
    • 3.2 Destandardization
    • 3.3 Weakening the normative practices of language norm authorities
  • 4. Conclusion and suggestions for further research
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• 10. Processes of language enquiries: The case of the Prague Language Consulting Service
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Language Consulting Centre and its services
  • 3. The structure of the dialogue: An overview
    • 3.1 Dialogue structure: Simple enquiries
    • 3.2 Dialogue structure: Complex enquiries
  • 4. Summary and concluding comments
  • References
• Part IV. The researcher as part of the language management process
• 11. Language management in life story interviews: The case of first generation ‘Zainichi’ Korean women in Japan
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The historical context
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Data analysis
  • 5. The benefits of micro-level analysis to macro-level understandings
    • 5.1 Identifying sociocultural perceptional gaps concerning marriage
    • 5.2 Identifying what storytellers do in terms of language management
    • 5.3 Benefits of micro-level analysis
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Transcription key
• 12. The bridging role of the researcher between different levels of language management: The case of a research project at the German-Polish border
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Integrating the researcher into the framework of LMT
    • 2.1 Levels of management: The micro-macro management cycle
    • 2.2 Stages (phases) of management: The management process cycle
  • 3. Case study: A researcher’s activities at the German-Polish border region
    • 3.1 The research project
    • 3.2 The researcher in the management process cycle and the micro-macro cycle
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Appendix. Socially oriented activities of the researcher in the German-Polish context
• 13. Epilogue: Reconsidering the language management approach in light of the micro-macro continuum
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The scope of LMT and its geographical spread
  • 3. Insights into the LM process
    • 3.1 Attention to norms as a pre-stage to LM
    • 3.2 Attention to the post-implementation stage
  • 4. Linking the various dimensions: Insights from the studies in this volume
    • 4.1 The intertwining of the elements of the micro-macro continuum
    • 4.2 The contributions of the individual chapters
  • 5. The maxim of cross-dimensional analysis
  • References
• Contributors
• Index