Abstract The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a small, semi-autonomous archipelago in the English Channel. Although it is a British Crown dependency and part of the British Isles, it has its own parliament and does not belong to the United Kingdom or the European Union. This unusual geopolitical situation means that the nation-state has little relevance. It is only recently that the indigenous former vernacular has been accorded any worth, at either grass-roots or government level: as its vitality declines (increasingly rapidly), its perceived value for individual and collective identification has grown. Although public opinion overtly supports indigenous language maintenance, and increasing its vitality is a stated aim (e.g., a government Language Commission was announced in 2012), effective top-down measures to increase the number and fluency of speakers appear to be low on the agenda. This article explores the implications of this socio-political background for language policy. It discusses language-related activities which reveal a lack of ideological clarification and strategic direction at all levels, compounded by issues of control, epistemic stance and language ownership.

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根西岛的语言规划和语言意识形态

摘要根西岛的百利威克群岛是英吉利海峡中一个小型的半自治群岛。尽管它是英国王室的附属物，并且是不列颠群岛的一部分，但它拥有自己的议会，不属于英国或欧盟。这种不寻常的地缘政治局势意味着这个民族国家几乎没有关联性。直到最近，无论是在基层还是在政府层面，原住民的原住民都被赋予了任何价值：随着其生命力的下降（迅速增长），其对于个人和集体认同的感知价值不断增长。尽管公众舆论公开支持土著语言的维护，并且提高其生命力是一个明确的目标（例如，2012年宣布了政府语言委员会），从议程上看，有效的自上而下的措施以增加发言人的人数和流利程度似乎并不重要。本文探讨了这种社会政治背景对语言政策的影响。它讨论了与语言有关的活动，这些活动揭示了各个层面缺乏意识形态的澄清和战略方向，以及控制，认识论立场和语言所有权等问题。