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In sociolinguistics, language planning (also known as language engineering) is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure or acquisition of languages or language varieties within a speech community. [1]
Language policy has been defined in a number of ways. According to Kaplan and Baldauf (1997), "A language policy is a body of ideas, laws, regulations, rules and practices intended to achieve the planned language change in the societies, group or system" (p. xi [3]).
Language Problems and Language Planning is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by John Benjamins Publishing Company in cooperation with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems. Its core topics are issues of language policy as well as economic and sociological aspects of linguistics.
Status planning involves giving a language or languages a certain standing against other languages [1] and is often associated with language prestige and language function. Corpus planning often involves linguistic prescription as decisions are made in graphization, standardization and modernization of a language. [2]
Singapore's language planning is known as exogenous planning, whereby a foreign language takes on the role as the main language of communication against the indigenous languages in the country. The education system aims to create a workforce that is bi-literate in English and Chinese/Malay/Tamil.
A spearheading social organization, "MEELAL" (Meetei Erol Eyek Loinasillol Apunba Lup) demanded the Government of Manipur that there should be state language departments other than Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation (DLPI) and the concerned authorities should first work on the development and the promotion of Manipur's ...
Corpus planning: Codification of a language (step 2); elaborating its functions to meet language needs (step 4) Status planning: Selection of a language (step 1); implementing its functions by spreading it (step 3) Whether the codification is successful depends heavily on its acceptance by the population as well as its form of implementation by ...
Language commissioner; Language law of Slovakia; Language policies of Francoist Spain; Languages in censuses; Latinisation in the Soviet Union; Legal recognition of sign languages; List of linguistic rights in European constitutions; List of official languages by country and territory; List of official languages of international organizations ...