Language Planning in Botswana  

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Nyati-Ramahobo, Lydia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 22 no. 1 (1998), page 48-62.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/22 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Language planning refers to a "deliberate effort to influence the behaviour of others with respect to the acquisition, structure or functional allocation of their language codes" (Cooper 1989: 45). The purpose of this paper is to place the activities of the National Setswana Language Council (NSLC), a language-planning body in Botswana, into the current language-planning theory in order to understand language planning problems of the Council. It aims at showing how language-planning theory can inform the activities of the NSLC. A brief theoretical framework is presented; a description of the origins, objectives and language-planning problems of the Council are outlined; and finally, on the basis of the theoretical framework and the identified problems, a language-planning model is suggested to inform language-planning activities in Botswana. The most urgent areas for Setswana language planning are status and acquisition planning, and they both need to be addressed simultanously.

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