Florian Coulmas is Senior Professor of Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen. He has prevoiusly held positions at Georgetown University, the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics, and Chuo University. He is the author of the OUP volumes Guardians of Language: Twenty Voices Through History (2016), An Introduction to Multilingualism (2017), Identity: A Very Short Introduction (2019), and Language, Writing, and Mobility: A Sociological Perspective (2022).

• 1: Why language policy? 2: Basic concepts and theories 3: Language conflicts 4: Normalization and standardization 5: Language ideologies 6: Agents of language policy 7: International language regimes 8: Language policy and the wealth of nations 9: The new multitude-migration, language, and citizenship 10: Linguistic rights: Language endangerment as a political issue 11: Anti-discrimination policies Notes References Index

The book Language Policy: A Slim Guide is a helpful tool for scientific dissemination. It is written in an easily readable and engaging style, and it delivers on its promise to offer an accessible introduction to some of the main issues related to language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundation of the relationship between language and the state. The author demonstrates commendable expertise in providing the reader with a balanced overview of different points of view and concrete cases of language policy from different countries.