LANG7510 Week 5 Review

Language planning is .... efforts to bring about systematic change in linguistic practices

• natural

• inevitable

• deliberate

How might national consciousness be socially constructed?

• by symbols

• by language

• both of the above

A national language is symbolic whereas an official language may be more...

• instrumental

• affective

The establishment of a national language often results in the .... of other languages

• preservation

• erasure

• celebration

Manipulating the form, or structure of a language is known as...

• corpus planning

• status planning

What is often integrated with language policy?

• environmental policy

• educational policy

How many processes of language standardization are there?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Answer explanation

1) Selection

2) Codification

3) Elaboration

4) Acceptance

The idea that there is only one correct form of a language is an example of..

• language loss

• language preservation

• language ideology