Language planning: An overview
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Oct 4, 2013
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This paper deals with the problems associated with language planning. Language planning is a controversial area in sociolinguistic. There is controversy about the terminology used, and in a postcolonial scenario, these problems go far beyond the academic, and become part of socio-political disagreements and conflicts. Often in the name of nationalism and progress, language planning privileges one language at the cost of other languages which may end up as serious societal conflicts. A researcher, thus, should look for hidden history in what on the surface appears to be innocuous language planning with noble goals such as wider national communication and national cohesion.
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