“…Fishman, 1974;Haarmann, 1990;Haugen, 1983). The 1983 meeting and the photo that records it, mark the fact that the theoretical foundations of LPP as a broad field of enquiry including language management (LM) were being laid in the 1980s (see Jernudd & Nekvapil, 2012;Jernudd & Neustupný, 1987), although the origins of LMT can be traced back to the 1970s (see Neustupný, 1974Neustupný, , 1978 and the modernising mission of LPP back to the aftermath of the Second World War (see Baldauf, 2012;Wright, 2004). For more recent students of LPP, its origins and links with LM are often overlooked, a point well made in Nekvapil's contribution to this issue (see also Nekvapil, 2011Nekvapil, , 2012.…”