This is a 'state of the art' of various language-planning theorisations. Sources in French and English have been sought(USA, Canada, France essentially).
The research begins with an attempt at defining 'language planning', in,order to have a means of exploring backwards the history of linguistics, and discriminate between what may be considered as language planning, and what may not be.
A historical review (Prague school, Tauli, Ray, Haugen, Corbeil, etc.) is attempted, with a reflexion on what seems to organise the evolution of this sub-domain.
The reflexions on the main concepts organising the field are summarised : Variation, Norm, Language Contact (Bilingualism, Diglossia), before the principal notions of language planning are examined : status, corpus, standardisation, etc. Finally, language planning is conceived as a speciality in contact with other domains outside the traditional scope of 'sciences humaines' : Economics (economic determinants and consequences of language policies), Law studies (constraints in the shaping of language policies), for example.
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