Research and practice in language policy and planning / James W. Tollefson and Miguel Pérez-Milans -- I. Conceptual Underpinnings of language policy and planning : theories and methods in dialogue -- Socio-economic junctures, theoretical shifts : a genealogy of LPP research / Monica Heller -- Research methods in language policy and planning / David Cassels Johnson -- The critical ethnographic turn in research on language policy and planning / Marilyn Martin-Jones and Ildegrada da Costa Cabral -- Critical discourse-ethnographic approaches to language policy / Ruth Wodak and Kristof Savsk -- Metapragmatics in the ethnography of language policy / Miguel Pérez-Milans -- Language ethics and the interdisciplinary challenge / Yael Peled -- II. Language policy and planning, nation-states, and communities -- Nationalism and national languages / Tomasz Kamusella -- Language and the state in western political theory : implications for language policy and planning / Peter Ives -- Ideologies of language standardization : the case of Cantonese in Hong Kong / Katherine H. Y. Chen -- Globalization, language policy, and the role of English / Thomas Ricento -- Language rights and language repression / Stephen May -- Medium of instruction policy / James W. Tollefson -- Language tests, language policy, and citizenship / Kellie Frost and Tim McNamara -- Language policy and mass media / Xuesong (Andy) Gao and Qing Shao -- Maintaining "good guys" and "bad guys" : implicit language policies in media coverage of international crises / Sandra Silberstein -- Language policy and planning and linguistic landscapes / Francis M. Hult -- Revitalizing and sustaining endangered languages / Teresa L. McCarty -- "We work as bilinguals" : socioeconomic changes and language policy for indigenous languages in El Impenetrable / Virginia Unamuno and Juan Eduardo Bonnin -- Critical community language policies in education : Solomon Islands case / Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo, David W. Gegeo, and Billy Fito'o -- Family language policy / Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen -- Language policies and sign languages / Ronice Muller de Quadros -- III. Language policy and planning and late modernity -- Language policy and planning, institutions and neoliberalization / Eva Codó -- Post-nationalism and language commodification / Joan Pujolar -- Bilingual education policy and neoliberal Content and Language Integrated Learning practices / Ana María Relaño-Pastor -- Turning language and communication into productive resources : language policy and planning and multinational corporations / Alfonso Del Percio -- Neoliberalism and linguistic governmentality / Luisa Martín Rojo -- Inequality and class in language policy and planning / David Block -- Community languages in late modernity / Li Wei -- New speakers and language policy / Bernadette O'Rourke, Josep Soler and Jeroen Darquennes -- Security and language policy / Constadina Charalambous, Panayiota Charalambous, Kamran Khan, and Ben Rampton -- Language policy and new media : an age of convergence culture / Aoife Lenihan -- Language ideologies in the text based art of Xu Bing : implications for language policy and planning / Adam Jaworski -- Language education policy and sociolinguistics : toward a new critical engagement / Jürgen Jaspers -- IV. Summary and future directions -- Language policy and planning : directions for future research / Miguel Pérez-Milans and James W. Tollefson.

"This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art account of research in language policy and planning (LPP). Through a critical examination of LPP, the Handbook offers new direction for a field in theoretical and methodological turmoil as a result of the socio-economic, institutional, and discursive processes of change taking place under the conditions of Late Modernity. Late Modernity refers to the widespread processes of late capitalism leading to the selective privatization of services (including education), the information revolution associated with rapidly changing statuses and functions of languages, the weakening of the institutions of nation-states (along with the strengthening of non-state actors), and the fragmentation of overlapping and competing identities associated with new complexities of language-identity relations and new forms of multilingual language use" -- Taken from publisher's website.