Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Stuttgart (Institute for Anglo Linguistics), course: Language Contact, language: English, abstract: Offers an overview over the fields of language policy and language planning and examines the German "e;Verein deutscher Sprache"e; and its strategies to influence on the development of the German language as an NGO without legal competences.