Language Planning and Terminology Planning. Sociolinguistic Aspects

Language planning

Language planning, in one way or another, is as old as human civilization. Every time that one polity  invaded  the  territory  of  another,  the  language  of  the  conqueror  was  imposed  on  the conquered. The Romans imposed their language across the civilized world as they  knew it. In the  21st  century,  the  practice  of  language  planning  has  become  increasingly  sophisticated. Eng...

Standardization and Language Planning of Terminology: the Norwegian Experience

The Norwegian language community is characterized by a considerable public interest in linguistic issues. Standardization of the written language has been an issue of controverse during more than a century, and in the Post-War period, the growing influence from Anglo-American culture has been of concern to the public opinion. Lexical elaboration of the national language is, consequently, consid...

Issues with Language Policy and Planning in Iranian Higher Education

In this study, we attempt to bring to light various organisational and implementational clashes relevant to the conceptualisation of language policies at national level, and the planning of local practices with regard to degree programmes, language journals and conferences in Iranian higher education. We also prove that in its current status, the ELT syllabus in Iran, both at national and local...

Planning in AI and Text Planning in Natural Language Generation

Researchers in natural language generation are becoming increasingly aware of the similarities between the task of planning the content and structure of the natural language text and that of other AI planning tasks. The problem of text planning and other AI planning problems have been studied separately from each other, and while many overlapping results have been found, they have not been shar...

Language Planning: Theory and Practice