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Language planning
What's the difference between corpus planning and status planning in regard to language planning?
Dec 15, 2012 7:42 AM
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December 15, 2012
This is what I found on the net:
Language planning is a deliberate effort to change a language or its functions in society. There are 3 kinds of language planning:
Corpus planning: making changes in the structure of a language. In ethnic languages a linguistic institution may introduce new expressions and new words (or officialize words that have entered the language recently). Making grammars, dictionaries, and an orthography - and introducing orthographic reforms - are part of the establishing of a linguistic norm for a language, or the changing of an older norm. Linguistic purism also belongs to corpus planning.
There is no abyss between ethnic languages and planned languages that are built on ethnic languages regarding corpus planning, only a scalar difference. The written ethnic languages received their norm through corpus planning. The ethnic languages change not only through spontaneous evolution but also through corpus planning. When a planned language is created, corpus planning occurs more or less from scratch. But when a planned language has acquired a stable structure and has been used for a while, changes occur almost like in an ethnic language. Esperanto is such a language.
Status planning: political ways of changing the status of a language in a certain society. Making a certain language or dialect an official language or a national language is status planning, as well as giving official minority language status to a certain language. Writing systems are often the result of status planning, since a writing system is often based on an officially chosen dialect.
Acquisition planning: influencing the teaching and learning of languages, and the number of language students. Deciding which languages are to be taught in a certain school system is acquisition planning, just like allocating resources to educate language teachers for certain languages. These decisions are usually taken by national, regional, or local authorities. National language institutes like British Council and Goethe-Institute are also active in acquisition planning, striving to increase the number of students of their language abroad. Private organizations like Universala Esperanto-Asocio are also engaged in acquisition planning.
Language planning can be conducted by authorities, ethnic, religious, or occupational groups, by private organizations, and by individuals.
It is important to note that language democracy is dependent on two things: a) language planning, especially status planning and acquisition planning; and b) that language planning is used to further language democracy.
December 15, 2012
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