التخطيط اللغوي الاقتصادي : رؤية نحو العربية

Abstract EN

In many languages there is an attention to the relationship between the economy and the language.

The Arabic language has not been discovered widely from that perspective.

The present paper attempts to shed some light on the relevant concepts such as language economics, language investment, language industry and its relation to language planning and language policy.

It also seeks to review some current cases of linguistic investment in different settings of the world such as Britain, France and Canada to draw some of the possible aspects of investment in the Arabic language.

The paper concludes with a review of the most important obstacles to investment in Arabic, which includes the lack of awareness, the non-stimulating regulatory and investment environment, the unstable situation in the region and the stereotypical attitude toward Arab countries in the West.

The study concludes that many countries had invested in language significantly to develop this aspect to prepare for acquiring huge, direct and indirect economic revenues.

There is an urgent need to sponsor experimental studies to uncover the potentials of investing in Arabic to point out the existing shortcomings vis-à-vis the successful language investment situations.