This course is conceived as a follow up to certain aspects of L23A. It starts off with an analysis of the links between language and national identity. It also deals with the role of language in official communication networks. Against this background, it analyses the various kinds of efforts made to plan language and which consciously affect its use in human society.
The course then looks at the Caribbean Creole speech communities and the various current developments in language policy in these societies, e.g. Haiti, Suriname, Curacao, St. Lucia, Dominica, and Jamaica etc.
Finally, L331 aims at giving students some practical experience that is related to Language Planning or the development of the resources of languages for official use. This will be done via research projects, which students would select in consultation with lecturer.
- Lecturer: Gerald Stell