ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses ethical dilemmas in Language Policy (LP) in high-stakes settings where an external advisor facilitates writing of language policies. Such dilemmas of outside indeed any expertise interacting with officials and communities pose significant ethical challenges. It describes the general nature of LP, since its focus is professional advising and policy drafting, rather than research directed at new theory, program evaluation, or general analysis of language policies. While ethical quandaries and challenges occur in most applied linguistics activities, LP is particularly prone to ethical concerns because it deals with professional decisions about the prestige, standing, and corpus of other people's forms of communication. While rules and guidelines drawn from university ethics regulation and the legal obligations enforced in contracts provide much of the ethical framework for work described here, the modern horkos, minus its ancient curse, but with the addition of local debate and collegial discussion, remains useful as an internal, personal inspiration.
