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]
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).
