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This is a list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies.Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism and prestige, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries, [1] which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations.
C. Center for Jewish History; Center for the Greek Language; Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa; Chartered Institute of Linguists; Chinese Language Standardisation Council of Malaysia
A language council, also known as a language regulator or a language academy, is an organisation that performs language planning or regulation. Some language councils are national and tied to a specific state, while councils without association to any country where the language is dominant also exist. [1] Some language academies may be ...
This article provides a list of all full members (académicos de número), past and present, of the Real Academia Española, the Spanish language regulator institution, as of July 1, 2006. Each member is elected for life by the rest of the academicians from among prestigious Spanish-language authors.
The body has the duty of acting as an official authority on the language; it is tasked with publishing an official dictionary of the language. The Académie comprises forty members, known as les immortels ("the immortals"). [2] New members are elected by the members of the Académie itself. Academicians normally hold office for life, but they ...
Linguistic prescription is a part of a language standardization process. [20] The chief aim of linguistic prescription is to specify socially preferred language forms (either generally, as in Standard English, or in style and register) in a way that is easily taught and learned. [21]
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages; American Council of Teachers of Russian; Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America; Association for Logic, Language and Information; Association for Serbian language and literature in Croatia; Association of Departments of English
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