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LANGUAGE PLANNING

Language planning involves  making informed  choices making informed choices about language that counter quasi-natural, market-driven developments  that are expected to take place  in the absence  of any intervention, or that have taken place,  with or without intervention,  and of which the language policy is intended  to  halt  or  reverse. (Coulmas; 2005: 186)

Language Planning is needed when a language regime  is to be changed. For a language policy to be effective it needs  Status Planning,  Corpus Planning,  Acquisition Planning  and Prestige  Planning. (Coulmas; 2005: 186)

All these four  stages listed above will  discussed  below.

1. STATUS PLANNING

The status of a language is a construct sanctioned by law or tradition. It can be an important factor in deciding the power structures of communication in a community. (Coulmas; 2005: 189)

Status Planning involves the recognition of the national or the international language and the language has to be financially supported and protected legally. This is usually done by the people in power or government

2. CORPUS PLANNING An important branch of Corpus planning is concerned with measures designed to make sure the language to which they are applied can fulfill  the functional requirements associated wit its status. (Coulmas; 2005: 195)

The general goal of Corpus planning is to define a language by codification thereby differentiating it from other languages or variations. (Coulmas; 2005: 195)

Corpus Planning also involves standardization and the development of oral and literal value of a language and its expressive power and its functional range.

3. AQUISITION PLANNING

The Acquisition Planning involves the actual use of the chosen language. This is when the language is being implemented.

In this stage the chosen language is then used in domains like the Media, at Schools, church, home and in most government institutes.

The language gains popularity and it also gains the second-language speakers.

4. PRESTIGE PLANNING

In this stage the implemented language is given more value.

In this process one variety of a language takes precedence over other social and regional dialect of a language.

This variety comes to be understood as supra-dialectal and the ‘best’ form of the language.

BY THAMI DUBE 201015167