- Title
- Language policy and planning: general constraints and pressures
- Creator
- Wright, Laurence
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- vital:7043
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007385
- Description
- preprint
- Description
- The general idea of language policy and planning is easily expressed. Christopher Brumfit, for one, defines language planning as “The attempt to control the use, status, and structure of a language through a language policy developed by a government or other authority” (see the Oxford Companion to the English Language). The Random House Dictionary of the English Language concurs, but adds some detail: language planning is “the development of policies or programmes designed to direct or change language use, as through the establishment of an official language, the standardization or modernization of a language, or the development or alteration of a writing system”. Such definitions could easily be multiplied, and they differ only slightly in nuance and depth.Language Policy is the formal, often legally entrenched, expression of language planning.
- Format
- 8 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Discussion Paper, Wright, L.S. (2007) Language policy and planning: general constraints and pressures. Discussion Paper. Laurence Wright. (Unpublished), Discussion Paper 2007
- Rights
- Wright, Laurence
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