Ideology and the Standardization of Arabic

Considered from the perspective of language standardization, grammar making is a form of codification whose immediate aim, as opposed to its ulterior motive, is to provide a set of rules for a selected variety of the language. In language policy terms, grammar making is an aspect of corpus planning...

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Main Author: YASIR SULEIMAN
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Arts
Axiology
Behavioral sciences
Cognitive processes
Cognitive psychology
Comprehension
Conflict
Ethics
Ethnic groups
Ethnology
Ethnoreligious groups
Group identity
High culture
Human behavior
Information processing
Language
Linguistics
Metaethics
Morality
Muslims
Nonnative languages
Normative ethics
Philosophy
Political identity
Prescriptivism
Psychology
Social behavior
Social interaction
Social psychology
Standardization
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Summary:Considered from the perspective of language standardization, grammar making is a form of codification whose immediate aim, as opposed to its ulterior motive, is to provide a set of rules for a selected variety of the language. In language policy terms, grammar making is an aspect of corpus planning that goes hand in hand with status planning in the standardization of a language (Cooper 1989). Having selected a language variety as a base for cross-dialectal standardization through status-planning activities, corpus planning seeks to provide this standard in the making with a writing system—or an elaboration or modification of an