Glottopolitics

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Glottopolitics is a sociolinguistic concept coined by Jean-Baptiste Marcellesi and Louis Guespin. [1] The concept later became a critical perspective for the study of the political in language and the linguistic in the political. [2] [3] Some scholars also consider it a subdisicpline of sociolinguistics. [4]

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Concept and history

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. [5] 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).

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  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Arnoux, Elvira Narvaja de; Valle, José del (2010-01-01). "Las representaciones ideológicas del lenguaje: Discurso glotopolítico y panhispanismo" . Spanish in Context. 7 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1075/sic.7.1.01nar. ISSN   1571-0718.
  3. ↑ Valle, José del, ed. (2007). La lengua, ¿patria común? ideas e ideologías del español. Lengua y sociedad en el mundo hispánico. Madrid: Iberoamericana. ISBN   978-3-86527-899-9.
  4. ↑ Narvaja de Arnoux, Elvira (1999). «La Glotopolítica: transformaciones de un campo disciplinario.». Lenguajes: teorías y prácticas. Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Secretaría de Educación. pp. 95–109.
  5. ↑ 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)