Language Planning
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- Language Planning
- Language planning
- Definition = The actual proposal of what is to be implemented to fulfil the ideological goals of the policy
- Deliberate effort to influence the function, structure or acquisition of languages or language varieties within a speech community
- Types of Language Planning
- Corpus
- Refers to the body, internal make-up or structure of a language variety or dialect
- Involves orthography, spelling and punctuation reforms as well as vocabulary regulation
- Status
- Involves the promotion of the role or function of a language / variety in relation to another language or variety
- Affects the relative prestige of a variety or a language
- Acquisition
- Refers to the efforts to enable individuals or groups to learn a language
- This can be as 1st/2nd language learners or foreign language learners
- Refers to the efforts to enable individuals or groups to learn a language
- Corpus
- Definition = The actual proposal of what is to be implemented to fulfil the ideological goals of the policy
- Language policy
- Definition = Linguistic, political and social goals that underlie the planning more generally
- Ideology
- Linguistic assimilation
- Linguistic Pluralism
- Vernacularisation
- Internationalism
- Goals
- Linguistic Purification
- Language Maintenance
- Language Spread
- Language Revival
- Standardisation
- Language Reform
- Factors affecting language
- Number of native speaking population
- Use in formal communication
- Geographic dispersal
- Socio-economic weight of its speakers
- Language death
- Up to 1/2 of the 6,000+ languages currently spoken are under threat in the 21st century
- Académie Française
- Founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635
- Modelled on: Academia della Crusca, founded in Florence in 1582, published Vocabolario in 1612
- Nature: linguistically conservative
- Concern: increased Anglicisation of French and "Americanisation" of French life (replacing loanwords - "walkman", "software" and "email" with ""baladeur", "logiciel" and "courriel")
- Welsh Language Planning
- 1911 the Welsh language in Wales had become a minority language
- 1962 Plaid Cymru & The Welsh Language Society
- Welsh Language Act of 1993
- Government of Wales Act 1998
- 2011 Welsh made an official language in Wales/UK
- 2011 recognised as a minority language in the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
- 2011 Welsh made an official language in Wales/UK
- Government of Wales Act 1998
- Welsh Language Act of 1993
- 1962 Plaid Cymru & The Welsh Language Society
- 1911 the Welsh language in Wales had become a minority language
- Language planning
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