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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Codification \Co`di*fi*ca"tion\ (? or ?), n. [Cf. F. codification.] The act or process of codifying or reducing laws to a code.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817 (Bentham), noun of action from codify.
Wiktionary
n. The process of precisely formulating a statement, as a ''code of laws''.
WordNet
n. the act of codifying; arranging is a systematic order
a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones) [syn: code]
Wikipedia
In law, codification is the process of collecting and restating the law of a jurisdiction in certain areas, usually by subject, forming a legal code, i.e. a codex ( book) of law. Codification is the defining feature of civil law jurisdictions.
__NOTOC__ In linguistics, codification is the process of standardizing and developing a norm for a language.
Codifying a language can vary from case to case and depends on the stage of standardization that already exists. It typically means to develop a writing system, set up official rules for grammar, orthography, pronunciation, syntax and vocabulary as well as publishing grammar books, dictionaries and similar guidelines. Several variants exist for a specific aspect, e.g. different ways of spelling a word, decisions on which variant is going to be the standard one have to be made.
In some countries such codification is done by a body constituted by the state, such as the Académie française. Codification often happens due to new inventions, changes in values or other cultural influences. After the process of decolonialization, many African states had to decide whether they wanted to keep the colonial language or chose one (or more) of their indigenous language varieties as official languages, which made language planning necessary.
In a well-known model of language planning by Einar Haugen, codification is only the second step. Step one is the selection process, step three is the implementation of the changes in society and step four is the elaboration of vocabulary (especially technical terms). In the process of language planning, two major levels exist: corpus planning and status planning ( Heinz Kloss). Codification is part of the corpus planning of a language, because the "body" of the language itself is being planned as opposed to status planning, where the prestige and usage of a language is enhanced:
- Corpus planning: Codification of a language (step 2); elaborating its functions to meet language needs (step 4)
- Status planning: Selection of a language (step 1); implementing its functions by spreading it (step 3)
Whether the codification is successful depends heavily on its acceptance by the population as well as its form of implementation by the government, e.g. promoting its prestige and spread, teaching the norm in school and language courses, and so on.
Codification may refer to:
- Codification (law), the process of forming a legal code
- Codification (linguistics), the process of standardising and developing a norm for a language in linguistics
- Accounting Standards Codification, the collection of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles produced by the FASB
- NATO Codification System, the official program under which equipment components and parts of the military supply systems are uniformly named, described and classified
- The Codification of Knowledge, is mechanism for the creation of Explicit knowledge
Usage examples of "codification".
The brief period of silence that ensued, the two men seated in the front knew, was the mental codification of information by the enigmas individual occupying the rear of the sedan.
The Edicts of King Cynan contain the most recent statement of this principle, but there are earlier precedents, the clearest, perhaps, being found in the ninth-century codification of Maryn the First.
In essence it was meant to be a set of instructions to the courts of Canada to interpret federal laws in a way that would provide the maximum protection of individual rights - a worthwhile codification of legal ideals.
He imagined the district never visited, empty of human transaction, and how buildings such as these would seem to hold untouchable matter, enormous codifications of organic decay.
They rigidified the codification of sex and gender, labeling those who dared to deviate from these codes or even fantasize about something different perverts and hysterics.
He imagined the district never visited, empty of human transaction, and how buildings such as these would seem to hold untouchable matter, enormous codifications of organic decay.
The Edicts of King Cynan contain the most recent statement of this principle, but there are earlier precedents, the clearest, perhaps, being found in the ninth-century codification of Maryn the First.
The story was a codification of the people's knowledge of the land: It was a map story, very specific and complete.
And still these men had asked nothing about the binomial theorem or the method of fluxions as the basis of calculus, and they had laughed at his codification of the quantitative laws of universal dynamics.