ABSTRACT
Language policy has three different components: language practices with linguistic behaviors and choices in a community; beliefs and ideology about language and language use; and efforts in intervening, planning, or managing language practices. Signers are typically bilingual in sign and spoken languages. Through experience and policy, teachers and students have developed the language practices that make their communication engagements possible. Language ideology is a system of ideas that forms a basis for language practices among people in a community. Language management includes efforts to intervene in or plan how language forms should be used, promoted, changed, or prohibited. Status planning concerns the latter type of language status; it involves political strategies in raising or lowering the status of a language. Corpus planning often happens in conjunction with status planning with the effort to standardize, modify, revitalize, or purify a language. Language standardization is another corpus planning process by which people establish and maintain standard language forms.
