Beyond Personality : The Territorial and Personal Principles of Language Policy Reconsidered

Abstract

Abstract Language regulation regimes are commonly classified according to whether they exemplify the territorial model or the personality principle (Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism 1967: Ch. 4; McRae 1975: 33; Laponce 1987; McRoberts 1989; May 2001: 178–9). This division picks out one particular feature of regimes: whether they regulate language use by territory, requiring people to adapt to the language of the place, or regulate in accordance with the linguistic preferences of speakers, wherever they reside. Described this thinly, neither model dictates very precisely a concrete policy on language, and indeed the literature displays a distinct lack of precision in the use of the two models to illuminate the concrete policies adopted in various jurisdictions.

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