Language Planning

Def.: “a government authorized, long-term sustained and conscious effort to alter a language itself or to change a language’s function in a society for the purpose of solving communication problems” (Weinstein 37)

2 kinds:
- Status planning: functional allocations of a language.
- Corpus planning: about the language itself. (Kloss)

Def.: “a government authorized, long-term sustained and conscious effort to alter a language itself or to change a language’s function in a society for the purpose of solving communication problems” (Weinstein 37)