Evaluating the implantation of prescriptive grammar: the sociolinguistic and glottopolitical approach

Abstract

This article seeks to be a contribution to the development of the theory and the methodology for the study of the implantation of regulated language change, on the basis of the experience obtained through various studies of terminology implantation. It aims at clarifying the conceptual contributions that sociolinguistics can make to the field of implantation, and presents a script for research on the implantation of terminology.

Keywords: language policy, terminology, Catalan language, language standardization, implantation