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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]
Four major types of language planning are status planning (about the social standing of a language), corpus planning (the structure of a language), language-in-education planning (learning), and prestige planning (image).
Tollefson and Pérez-Milans 2018 examines how some see planning as following from language policy, while others see policy as the output of the planning process. Language policy is used sometimes as a synonym for language planning but more often it refers to the goals of language planning.
The field of language planning and policy (LPP) is concerned with the policies both explicit and implicit that influence what languages are spoken when, how, and by whom, as well as the values and rights associated with those languages.
Language Planning refers to political activities aimed at consciously influencing social communication systems to introduce desired changes or prevent undesirable ones.
Language planning is a controversial area in sociolinguistics. There is controversy about the terminology used, and in a postcolonial scenario, these problems go far beyond the academic, and...
This review concentrates on the processes, aims, goals and research methods used by language planners. For fuller treatment of language planning theory and its educational links, see the reviews by Schroeder, and by Fettes in Volume 1. Download to read the full chapter text.
Language planning as an academic discipline has existed for about fifty years and at least two periods can be distinguished within it: “classic language planning” of the 1960s and 1970s,...
This Handbook offers a state-of-the-art account of research in language policy and planning (LPP). The Handbook examines the ways in which scholars ...
This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.