ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of language policy and the media by reviewing the state of the art, both in terms of literature and in terms of research. It outlines key terms and their uses, and explains the types of language policy and media. The chapter also provides an overview of disciplinary perspectives on language policy and the media, with a particular focus on the evolution from traditional news to new and social media. It reviews research within a range of national and globalized contexts, and discusses the core areas of status, corpus and acquisition planning. The chapter examines relationship between language policy and the media in two overarching areas: in the chronological transition from nation-states to globalization, and in status, corpus, and acquisition planning. Language policy concerns the production and enforcement of linguistic norms; the reality of policymaking and its implementation is much more complex than such a simplistic label implies.
