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Politics of language and language planning
The development of new areas for study and research in the politics of language and language planning is demonstrated. Topics that will be discussed are language and language-related problems; language auditing; sociolinguistic profiling; the instrumental and symbolic functions of languages; language and the construction of identity, the need for language planning; language stipulations of the SA constitution; language policy development at national, provincial and local levels of government; the implementation of language policy; its evaluation; language planning and cost-estimation. The module takes into account the realities of the South African language environment and attention is given to issues surrounding standardisation.