Kalbos politikos vertinimas interneto komentaruose
Evaluation of language policy in the internet comments

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at analysing the evaluation of the Lithuanian language policy in internet comments. The investigation is based on the methodology developed by R. L. Cooper and the elements of language policy identified in his analytical scheme. This investigation focuses on comments written for articles on language policy and related language issues in the news portal www.delfi.lt. Interpretation is based on the concept of frame and the principles of framing analysis. Research has shown that most positive comments were addressed to the situation in language policy. Utterances attributed to the frame focused on the threats for the Lithuanian language which leads to treating the linguist’s work as extremely important. Some other items of positive evaluation refer to the aims of language policy (a need to purify the language is approved) and its results (after the restoration of independence the quality of language has improved). Other language policy elements are given more negative evaluation: actors (e.g. linguists who claim they own the language and never discuss problematic issues with specialists in a professional field); objects (e.g. an attempt is made to regulate even spoken language; however, public foreign notices have no Lithuanian equivalents); goals (e.g. rules are written for the sake of writing rather than for the sake of simpler communication) etc. There are some claims which offer no direct evaluation of language policy. They are attributed to additional frames, e.g. the quality of language as a feature of individual human culture, the quality of language as a distinctive feature of a generation gap etc.

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