Economic Linguistics and its Place in Language Planning: The Arabization of Education as an Example.

Abstract

 This research aims to introduce economic linguistics in terms of being a modern linguistic branch that studies the economic aspects of language and its uses. The study seeks to demonstrate the status of economic linguistics in linguistic planning, drawing up language policies and achieving them with relation to how linguistic planning is a decisive factor in formulating and implementing language policies. The research picks up the Arabization of education as an example to demonstrate the importance of the economic feasibility study in making sovereign linguistic decisions, indicating the impact and the importance of Arabization on the economies of Arab countries, as well as their role in building the desired Arab societal knowledge.

The research is divided into two parts: The first part is the general introductions dealing with important issues pertaining to economic linguistics and Arabization, illuminating the role of Arabization in developing the Arab world. The second part deals with the status of economic linguistics in supporting the visions of linguistic planning and implementing them in a hopefully feasible and beneficial manner, taking the economic and cognitive feasibility of Arabizing education as an example that predicts the great impact of the Arabization of education in building Arab economies, and solving many of their pending economic problems.