Robert B. Kaplan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert B. Kaplan is involved.
2010 Australian Applied Linguistics in relation to international trends Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 33:1, pp. 4.1–4.32 | Article
Applied Linguistics is a diverse field, comprising a substantial number of sub-fields, sub-specialisations and related fields. To see that this is the case one need only examine the various hand- books and encyclopaedic references that have been published in the last ten years to see the wide range… read more
2007 Language policy spread: Learning from health and social policy models Language Problems and Language Planning 31:2, pp. 107–129 | Article
Except for a few large scale projects, language planners have tended to talk and argue among themselves rather than to see language policy development as an inherently political process. A comparison with a social policy example, taken from the United States, suggests that it is important to… read more
2005 Foreword: Literacy in the educational race after cultural integrity Multiple Perspectives on L1 and L2 Academic Literacy in Asia Pacific and Diaspora Contexts, Li, Xiaoming and Christine Pearson Casanave (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Miscellaneous
1997 Foreword: Palmam qui meruit ferat Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges, Eggington, William and Helen Wren (eds.), pp. xi–xxiv | Foreword
1994 Translated! A new breed of bilingual dictionaries Babel 40:1, pp. 1–11 | Article
Abstract This paper describes the development of a new range of bilingual dictionaries which are based on translating the explanations in monolingual Cobuild dictionaries2 into the user's mother tongue. These dictionaries have been designed by Cobuild's Editor-in-Chief, John Sinclair, primarily to… read more
1982 Review of Giles & Clair (1979): Language and Social Psychology Language Problems and Language Planning 6:2, pp. 185–188 | Review
1978 On the notion of topic in written discourse Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 1:2, pp. 1–9 | Article