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Peer reviewedCripwell, Kenneth R. – Language in Society, 1975
The simplified documents produced by the British and Rhodesian governments to explain the settlement proposals to Africans are compared in terms of syntactic complexity and lexical choice, and in terms of the audience to which the documents are addressed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Difficulty Level, Government Publications
Download full textRobinson, David – 1988
Language planning is official, government-level activity concerning the selection and promotion of a unified administrative language or languages. Language planning initiatives arise in response to sociopolitical needs and attempt to meet those needs by reducing linguistic diversity. Several stages occur in the language planning process. The first…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Language Planning, Language Role, Official Languages
