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Chapter 5 - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 5
Corpus, status and acquisition planning
Corpus planning: It is the attempt to modify the code itself, including the development of terms for new technologies, processes and services.
Status planning: Refers to efforts to increase or decrease the perceived status or prestige of a language in a given sphere, for non-linguistic purposes.
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Keeping language alive
A key factor in the health of a language is the extent to which
parents pass it on to their children.
Many Indigenous communities around the world are losing speakers faster than they are raising children in their language(s), and many communities have proposed and carried out schemes for maintaining their language.
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Language decisions
When we use language in our daily lives is so quickly, then choices about how we use language are not made consciously and are not really decisions at all; these are available to conscious reflection, but constant attention and attempts to control them too closely would be inefficient and would soon impede communication.
Language decision-makers include teachers, textbook writers and material developers, language therapists, lexicographers and translators these language professionals may not consider themselves language planners, we argue that their decisions about language and the actions they take based upon such decisions are examples of language planning in action.
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