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- Title
Language planning and language management: the case of French.
- Authors
Parker, Gabrielle
- Abstract
Planning focuses both on status and on corpus. Both require official intervention in order to be effective. Since language in France has long been seen as a public asset, it follows that the State will have a stake in its maintenance and will equip itself with the administrative and leqislative apparatus to underpin its planning and policies. The Francophonie project is arguably the most ambitious manifestation of this approach. These are not purely linguistic matters. Language is a social, cultural and political artifact. Therefore debates on language policies are of concern to all individual speakers of a language. It was made explicit at the time of the French Revolution and acknowledged earlier still, that linguistic and economic matters are interconnected. Hence the constant battle to maintain French and to keep the language up-to-date with the e-revolution.
- Subjects
FRANCE; FRENCH language; LANGUAGE planning; LANGUAGE policy; LANGUAGE &; languages; FRENCH revolutionary literature
- Publication
International Journal of Francophone Studies, 2000, Vol 3, Issue 3, p180
- ISSN
1368-2679
- Publication type
Article