Linguistic Policy: Concept & Executive methods

السّياسة اللغويّة: مفهومها وآلياتها التنفيذية

Abstract

Linguistic planning and linguistic policies are a contemporary modern field that emerged from sociolinguistics, and its features and specialized literature are still in the process of construction and formation, which means that its structure has not been completed yet, and this term appeared in the mid-twentieth century AD, which also means instability in its theories, visions, and its starting points yet.

Language policy is the body of ideas, rules & laws which influence in language change of the society, concern group of people or in a particular system, it is a complex socio-cultural process which has its own formulation mechanisms, some of the major objectives of language policy are: Language Purification, Language Revival, Language Reform, Language Standardization, Language Spread, Lexical Modernization, Terminology Unification, Stylistic Simplification, Interlingual Communication, Language Maintenance and Auxiliary Code Standardization.

Some of the most important issues targeted by language policy are: Establishing laws and standards for correct writing, the appropriateness of the language as a means of expression for the group in which you speak, the ability of language to be a vessel for intellectual and scientific creativity, lack of understanding between individuals in a multilingual society, choosing the language of education and scientific exchange & translating literary works etc.