LING 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Language Planning, Language Shift
24 Apr 2017
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Status planning: altering the status of language(s) in the country. Corpus planning: closely related to status planning, involves adaptations in the form of the language (e. g. developing a written form, standardization, etc. ) Acquisition planning: implementation of language planning in educational contexts. Languages are often resistant to government in uence. E. g. example of esperanto, a created lingua franca that was rejected, and the role of english took its place. E. g. example of irish suffers at the expansion of english. Revival of hebrew to be the of cial language of israel (stronger connection with jewish history and identity; chosen as language of new republic) Managing the emergence of english as a lingua franca. Agreement of additive rather than subtractive bilingualism. Gain advantages of international language without losing the cultural value and linguistic diversity among cultures across the world. Emergence is related to phenomenon of globalization. Possibility of addressing an international/global audience, people wanted to do that, using.
