LANGUAGE POLICY AND LANGUAGE POLITICS: THE QUESTION OF ACTORS
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https://doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2021-4-5-15Keywords:
language policy; language policy; political and language relations; participants; subjects; actors; agentsAbstract
The article discusses the prospects for the conceptual systematization of forms and methods of individual participation in language and politics relations. This type of relations complex is proposed to be analyzed differentially using two intersecting, but not coinciding, semantic circles formed around the categories of "language policy", on the one hand, and "politics of language", on the other hand. There is a whole spectrum of heterogeneous interactions - political and linguistic relations - in which the participants are involved not only at the institutional, but also at the group and individual levels. This kind of involvement can acquire both a deliberate, conscious character and not motivated in a specific way, a spontaneous form associated not so much with goal achievement as with accompanying effects and consequences. This implies a certain nuance: the categories “subjects” and “actors” can be understood as attributes namely of language policy itself, while “agents” are bodies of the politics of the language in a proper sense of the concept. Some demonstrate political intentions in the field of linguistic situations in general (on the meso- and macro-contours), while others can function at the level of private claims, for example, in defending linguistic rights and in practice at the micro-level.References
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