Glottopolitics

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Glottopolitics is a sociolinguistic concept coined by Jean-Baptiste Marcellesi and Louis Guespin.

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It may be defined as any action taken by society to manage language interaction. Glottopolitics is constantly at work; it is a continuum that ranges from minuscule acts to considerable interventions, ultimately concerning language itself: promotion, prohibition, change of status, etc. There can be no social community without glottopolitics. [1] It is a social practice from which no one can escape (people "do glottopolitics without knowing it", whether they are ordinary citizens or ministers of the economy). [2]

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  1. Guespin L., 1985, « Introduction. Matériaux pour une glottopolitique » dans Cahiers de linguistique sociale n°7, Presses de l’université de Rouen, p. 14-32, ici p. 21-22 (in French)
  2. Marcellesi, Jean-Baptiste; Guespin, Louis (1986). "Pour la glottopolitique". Langages (in French). 21 (83): 5–34. doi:10.3406/lgge.1986.2493 . Retrieved 2019-04-26.