The paper was originally published in 2004 in Japanese as Gengo kanri riron no rekishiteki ichi: Appudēto in H. Muraoka (ed.), Language Management in Contact Situations, Vol. 3, No. 104.
In the paper, J. V.
Neustupný explores the historical position of language management in relation to other theories and argues that Language Management Theory can act as General Theory of Language Management.