For instance, the use of "Ms" as against "Mrs", opposition to the use of "androcentric pronouns" ("Everyone should write their name and address" as against "Everyone should write his name and address") and "androcentric occupational terms" ("Chairperson" as against "Chairman")
What is noticeable in these changes is the conviction that language usage helps bring about social change, and language usage also helps reinforce or stabilize social change. For reinforcement or bringing longevity of social change, it is desirable for both corpus and status planning activities to go on simultaneously. This makes language planning a part of the total social change or social planning process, whether as cause and/or as effect.
Two more types of language planning added in the literature are acquisition planning (Cooper 1989) and prestige planning (Haarmann 1990).
c. Acquisition planning, which is directed towards the users, describes efforts to promote the acquisition of additional languages. Bilingual educational programs are examples of acquisition language planning. .
d. Prestige planning brings positive values to the planning. "Every planning effort .has to rely on a kind of psychological background which favours an effective implementation of planning goals and which, ultimately, is the most crucial variable for a long-term success planning. Any kind of planning has to attract positive values." (Haarmann, 1990: 104) .
Language Planning Orientations.
Success or failure of language planning depends upon the complexities of language orientations. For example, on the one hand, dominant language or LWC can be viewed by many, including the speakers of minority languages, as resource; on the other hand, minority languages can be regarded as problems. If minority language speakers clamour for their language rights, there may be another set of minority language group for whom their language is viewed as a problem.