Which Haugen stage involves actions by government agencies and writers in adopting and using the norm?

• A. Implementation
• B. Selection
• C. Codification
• D. Elaboration

Answer: (A)

In this stage, the norm becomes a living standard through active adoption and use by institutions and authors. Implementation is about turning a chosen norm into everyday practice—government agencies setting policies, education systems teaching the standard, media and publishers enforcing it, and writers adopting it in their work. It’s the phase where the standard moves from being a concept to being routinely used and promoted across society. The other stages focus on choosing a norm (selection), fixing rules and guidelines (codification), or expanding its use into more domains (elaboration), but only implementation covers the actual adoption and daily use by institutions and writers.