Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Part 1: Setting The Scene -- 1 Why Study a Language Academy? -- 2 Theoretical Paradigms: Dynamics of Language Change -- 3 What are Language Academies Good For? -- 4 Language Policy and Planning in Peru: A Brief History -- Part 2: High Academy of the Quechua Language: Foundations -- 5 Quest for Official Recognition -- 6 Anatomy of an Academy: Structure, Membership, Statutes -- Part 3: Inventing Tawantinsuyu and Qhapaq Simi: Ideologies of the HAQL -- 7 Imagining a 'Nation', Idealizing a Language -- 8 Constructing and Deconstructing Expertise -- 9 Allies or Enemies? Collaborating with the HAQL -- Part 4: Empowering Inca Quechua: Language Planning à la HAQL -- 10 Status Planning with the HAQL -- 11 Corpus Planning's Alphabet Wars: Quechua Graphization -- 12 Standardizing and Modernizing Quechua: An Ongoing Dilemma -- Part 5: Spreading the Language of the Apus: Acquisition Planning and Revitalization Struggles -- 13 Preparing for Pedagogy -- 14 Learning Quechua with the HAQL -- 15 Where Do We Go From Here? Final Thoughts and Recommendations -- Appendix 1: Log of Audio-Recorded Data -- Appendix 2: Publications Associated with the HAQL Related to Status, Corpus and Acquisition Planning -- References -- Index