ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to briefly examine some aspects of the distributive dimension of language policies. The distributive dimension remains among the least-explored in language policy, including in the growing economic literature on the subject, which for a number of reasons has tended to prioritise the allocative dimension. In this chapter, we shall not attempt to provide a full coverage of the question, about which much has never been investigated. Rather, we shall attempt to posit a few basic notions, leaving necessary elaboration for further work. Nevertheless, we hope to provide some of the necessary orientation into the issue.
