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Download full textDeFrancis, John – Language Planning Newsletter, 1975
This article discusses language planning in the People's Republic of China, and opens by commenting on the difficulty in observing the language planning process in China, particularly in the area of decision-making. A brief history of language planning is provided. Following the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, a shift took place…
Descriptors: Chinese, Ideography, Language Planning, Language Standardization
Peer reviewedSlone, Tod G. – Contemporary French Civilization, 1993
The second part of a study on the defense of the French language (see Part I in the Winter 1992 issue) presents historical overview of the Quebec government effort of renewing, normalizing, and promoting the French language in that province. The controversial aspects and effects of Law 101 are examined. (43 references) (LET)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, French
Neustupny, J.V. – 1976
Japan is taking her place as a bastion of apparent linguistic stability. The basic concept used in this paper is "language correction." The assumption is that generative rules of language produce inadequate communicative acts that may be corrected through corrective rules. Japan in the last century has passed through a number of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Japanese, Language Instruction, Language Planning
Molde, Bertil – Language Planning Newsletter, 1975
This article discusses language planning in Sweden. The Swedish Academy has as its goal to develop the purity, strength and nobility of the Swedish language by means of dictionaries, grammars, and the codification of vocabulary. Sweden also has a National Language Committee, one of a network of such committees existing in the Scandinavian…
Descriptors: Danish, Institutions, Language Planning, Language Usage
McConnell, Grant D. – 1977
Two basic approaches to language treatment have been defined, the policy approach and the cultivation approach. The former deals with the selection of a national language, standardization, literacy, orthography, and the stratification of code varieties, and is a macro approach. The latter concerns correctness, efficiency, specialized functions,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Evaluation, Federal Legislation
Wang, John B. – MALT Bulletin, 1978
Language must meet the social, economic, political, and psychological needs of the time, and it necessarily changes with new ways of thinking. Political ideology is one factor that can influence linguistic change. A dramatic example of this process can be found in the People's Republic of China, where major political forces have brought about…
Descriptors: Chinese, Chinese Culture, Communism, Diachronic Linguistics
McConnell, Grant – 1977
As stated in Part 1 of this discussion, Canada is a hybrid, making use of both the macro, or policy, model and the micro, or cultivation, model of language treatment. Some concrete measures are taking place in language status and corpus planning on the inter-federal-provincial level and the provincial level, particularly in Quebec. One such…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
