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ISBN 10: 0521333598

ISBN 13: 9780521333597

Author: Robert L. Cooper

This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization. Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, feminist campaigns to eliminate sexist bias in language, adult literacy campaigns, the plain language movement, efforts to distinguish American from British spelling, the American bilingual education movement, the creation of writing systems for unwritten languages, and campaigns to rid languages of foreign terms. Language Planning and Social Change is the first book to define the field of language planning and relate it to other aspects of social planning and to social change. The book is accessible and presupposes no special background in linguistics, sociology or political science. It will appeal to applied linguists and to those sociologists, economists and political scientists with an interest in language.

Language Planning And Social Change 1st Table of contents:

1 Four examples in search of a definition

Founding the Academie frangaise

The promotion of Hebrew in Palestine

Androcentric generics and the feminine mystique

A mass literacy campaign

2 Definitions: a baker’s dozen

Who

What

Language planning as problem-solving

For whom

How

Language planning in relation to other spheres of inquiry

A thirteenth definition

3 The uses of frameworks

Descriptive adequacy

Predictive adequacy

Explanatory adequacy

Theoretical adequacy

4 Some descriptive frameworks

Language planning as the management of innova

Language planning as marketing

Language planning as the pursuit and maintenance of power

Language planning as decision making

An accounting scheme for the study of language planning

5 Status planning

Stewart’s functions as targets of status planning

Other functions as targets of status planning

Conclusion

6 Corpus planning

Graphization

Standardization: ‘Tor all people for all time”

Modernization

A Note on Language Planning Terminology

Renovation

The Good Corpus

7 Acquisition planning

8 Social change

Sources of social change

The mechanisms of social change

Evolutionary theories

Cyclical theories

Functionalism

Conflict theory

Dependency theory

Is a theory of language planning possible?

9 Summary and conclusions

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