文档介绍：Chapter Seven
Language Planning
语言规划
Main Points:
Key Definitions of Language Planning
Types of Language Planning
Emergence of Language Planning
Four Language planning ideologies
Principles of Language Planning
Significance of Language Planning
Characteristics of Language Planning
Tasks of Language Planning
Language Planning in China
of Language Planning
(1) Language planning is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of a language or language variety within a munity. It is often associated with government planning, but is also used by a variety of non-anizations, such as grass-anizations and even individuals. The goals of language planning differ depending on the nation anization, but generally include making planning decisions and possibly changes for the benefit munication. Planning or improving munication can also lead to other social changes such as language shift or assimilation, thereby providing another motivation to plan the structure, function and acquisition of languages
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(2) Language planning is official, government-level activity concerning the selection and promotion of a unified administrative language or languages. It represents a coherent effort by individuals, groups, anizations to influence language use or development.
(Robinson, David )
(3) The International Encyclopedia of Linguistics offers the definition of language planning: “A deliberate, systematic ,and theory-based attempt to solve munication problems of munity by studying the various languages or dialects it uses, and developing a policy concerning their selection and use; also sometimes called language engineering or language treatment. Corpus planning deals with norm selection and codification, as in the writing of grammars and the standardization of spelling; status planning deals with initial choice of language, including attitudes towards alternative languages and the political implica