What is language planning?
Q: What is language planning?
A: Language planning is an attempt to influence how a language is used by setting goals, objectives, and strategies to make the language more usable for different subjects.
Q: Are there organizations that look after languages?
A: Yes, there are organizations that look after languages, such as the Academie Française for French or the British Council for English.
Q: What are the different forms of language planning?
A: The different forms of language planning are corpus planning, linguistic purity, status planning, and acquisition planning.
Q: What is corpus planning?
A: Corpus planning is a form of language planning that creates new words, expressions, or changes old ones to have a new meaning. It is also involved in creating standards for a language, such as spelling, grammar, and dictionaries.
Q: What is linguistic purity?
A: Linguistic purity is a form of corpus planning that aims to avoid foreign influences on a language because they're thought to be bad.
Q: What is status planning?
A: Status planning is a form of language planning that aims to change the way a language is used. It involves making some languages or dialects official languages for a territory. It also sometimes involves creating a writing system for a language that was only spoken before.
Q: What is acquisition planning?
A: Acquisition planning is a form of language planning that aims to make the language easier or more attractive to learn. It often involves making the language more attractive to learn for speakers of other languages.
