Fairclough’s Concepts of Language Policy and Language Planning: A Comparative Study between Malaysia and Cambodia review

Fairclough’s Concepts of Language Policy and Language Planning: A Comparative Study between Malaysia and Cambodia review

1.       Title                    : Fairclough’s Concepts of Language Policy and Language Planning: A

   Comparative Study between Malaysia and Cambodia

2.       Author                 :  Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi*, Nurul Wahida Samsuddin, Mairas Abd Rahman

3.      Journal                 : American Journal of Educational Research, 2013, Vol. 1, No. 9, 375-379

4.       Publication          : 2013

5.      Abstract             : This paper is a comparative study of two important journals which reflect the challenges faced by two developing countries: Malaysia and Cambodia. The objectives of this study are to investigate the problems, planning and challenges faced by both countries and also to justify the language policy and planning of both countries using Fairclough’s concepts in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).

6.      Goals                   : to reflect the challenges faced by two developing countries: Malaysia and Cambodia

7.      Problems           : challenges faced by two developing countries: Malaysia and Cambodia. The objectives of this study are to investigate the problems, planning and challenges faced by both countries and also to justify the language policy and planning of both countries using Fairclough’s concepts in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).

8.      Theories          : Critical Discourse Analysis, Language Policy, language planning, Fairclough.

9.      Method            : research

10.  Findings & Conclusion :

This paper is a comparative study of two important journals which reflect the challenges faced by two developing countries: Malaysia and Cambodia. The objectives of this study are to investigate the problems, planning and challenges faced by both countries and also to justify the language policy and planning of both countries using Fairclough’s concepts in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).

The findings show that language policy and language planning in Malaysia and Cambodia are majorly influenced by the political development at both of the countries themselves. Obviously, the national language of Bahasa Malaysia and Khmer has experienced development and standardization surrounded with the influence of second language, that is English.

Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, Language Policy, language planning, Fairclough.

As for the conclusion, language policy and language planning in Malaysia and Cambodia was majorly influenced by the political development at both of the countries themselves. Foreign occupation and many other drastic changes in the government had severely affected language planning and language policy.

Quoting from Thong (n.d.), “national institutions, committees, commissions, and private organisations have in the course of the time shifted or re-moulded their emphasis from one function to another”. These agencies or bodies had adapted functions or adopted new functions to meet the needs or new policies based on the ruling power.

Throughout this process, the national language of Bahasa Malaysia and Khmer had experienced development and standardization. All in all, the findings from this comparative study prove that both Asian countries experience a unique process of setting up their language policy and planning which is in line with Fairclough’s concepts of power and hegemony in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA (Capdevila, 2011).