caa a22 4500 463241401 CHVBK 20180405153313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10993-007-9048-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10993-007-9048-5 Anthony Brown N. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Brigham Young University, 3093 Joseph F. Smith Building, 84602, Provo, UT, USA aut Status Language Planning in Belarus: An Examination of Written Discourse in Public Spaces [Elektronische Daten] [N. Anthony Brown] This research examines the treatment of Belarusian and Russian on signs located in the Minsk metro and on official signs affixed to government buildings, specifically the District Administration, War Commissariat, House of Marriage, Police, Security (division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), Notary Public, Public Prosecutor, Courts, and Tax Inspection. Such data provide valuable insights into status planning efforts on the part of government officials and illustrate changes prompted by past and current language policies. Preliminary findings suggest an overall increase in public display of Belarusian, albeit it more systematic within the metro than on official signage affixed to government buildings. Such an increase reflects a top-down effort to conform to a 1990 language policy that granted Belarusian "official” language status. The same policy in its 1995 amended form grants Russian "co-official” language status—a linguistic situation that understandably precipitates questions of consistent and equal representation of both languages in public spaces, both in terms of inclusion of Belarusian and Russian and their positioning on signs. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Belarus nationallicence domain nationallicence public spaces nationallicence signage nationallicence status planning nationallicence Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/2(2007-06-01), 281-301 1568-4555 6:2<281 2007 6 10993 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9048-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-007-9048-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Anthony Brown N. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Brigham Young University, 3093 Joseph F. Smith Building, 84602, Provo, UT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Language Policy Kluwer Academic Publishers 6/2(2007-06-01), 281-301 1568-4555 6:2<281 2007 6 10993 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer