This book, focused on corpus planning in language policy, provides
a broad, integrative framework and also discusses multiple
languages in detail. It provides readers with great familiarity
with a wide range of language cases and at the same time gives them
the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate.
The novelty of this volume is twofold: First, it deals with corpus
planning alone (modernizing a language per se), and second, it does
so in terms of a systematization of the often unconscious language
status aspirations that both guide language planners themselves and
motivate the lay public (the target population of all language
planning).
Corpus planning is going on all over the world today and inevitably
becomes an expression of the societal goals, ideologies, and
aspirations of the societies and cultures that support it. The
implication is that the distinction between corpus and status
planning, which has a long tradition in language planning research,
must be critically re-examined.
"DO NOT Leave Your Language Alone: The Hidden Status Agendas Within
Corpus Planning in Language Policy "begins with a brief
introduction to language planning as a whole, to corpus planning in
particular, and to the unavoidability of a status component in the
execution of all corpus planning past, present, and future. Topics
of the central chapters include:
*corpus planning and status planning: separates, opposites, or
Siamese twins?;
*the directions and dimensions of corpus planning;
*does "folksiness" come before or after "cleanliness"?;
*the bi-polar dimension of uniqueness vs. Westernization;
*the classicization vs. "panification" bi-polardimension;
*the Ausbau vs. Einbau bi-polar dimension;
*the interdependence and independence of dimensional clusters;
and
*can opposites and incommensurables be combined?
Written at an introductory level assuming no prior knowledge of the
field, this book is intended as a text for higher undergraduate and
lower graduate level courses in language planning and policy. It is
equally valuable for researchers in the field of language planning,
policy, and politics, as well as those in sociolinguistics,
political science, and communication studies more generally--that
is, for all who are interested in fostering or limiting human
intervention in the language change processes that are ongoing
worldwide. Finally, an introduction to corpus planning that is full
of historical vignettes, good humor, visual illustrations, and
cutting-edge thought!
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