language policy admittedly coming middle discussion missed earlier messages however struck hale disturbing feelings references nonlinguistic issues citizenship ethnicity manage language planning project without taking consideration nonlinguistic factors addition study language attitudes government policies past present language education social mobility etc etc something else think perhaps language planner might favor legal restrictions outright legal promotion language languages seems like opposite course could actually lead unofficial restrictions language someone mentioned case spanish english us last week heard radio npr news report monolingual english speakers cant find work miami area nt speak spanish report reference politician support making english official language us national federal level one could argue spanish minority language local city level one could argue case promotion spanish leading unofficial restrictions english speakers least city level terms employment opportunities point definition minority language going depend specific situation currently involved smallscale language planning project capacity director toughest decisions come across nonlinguistic factors people emotions feelings ideas towards people nt speak language even small project extremely complex deborah du bartell ph linguistics program edinboro university pennsylvania edinboro pa 16444 usa 814732 2736