ABSTRACT
The original plan of this book was to be an attempt at a typology of language policies, analysing their main characteristics and arranging them in some sort of schema that would elucidate and explain why certain types prevail, how they work in principle and in practice, and be a contribution to the disciplines of sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, politico-linguistics, and all the other disciplines that have attempted to categorize language policy. These may be grouped under the general rubric of ‘social linguistics’ (Grillo 1989).
