Human actors in language policy and planning. Agency, ideology and practices
Authors
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Yvette Bürki
Universität Bern
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3081-3622
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Anik Nandi
Universidad del País Vasco
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8254-6637
Abstract
The articles in this thematic special issue of Boletín de Filología (Universidad de Chile), “Human actors in language policies and planning. Agency, ideology and practices”, underscore how language policy and planning practices are shaped and being shaped by various social actors involving policymakers, a range of policy implementors – parents, educators, students and other members of the civil society for whom the language policies are designed. Drawing on situated case studies from both sides of the Atlantic (Latin America and Europe), this special issue documents the role human actors as de facto policymakers on the ground. Their under-the-radar participation in the language policy regime may appear extremely intermittent and ad hoc, but their individual language management and practice, taken together, can have a significant impact in their immediate society’s language behavior. The collection has emerged in the wake of the international conference on Challenging borders, challenging categorizations: From/between borders 2021 (11–13 November 2021, Bern, Switzerland).Keywords:
Language policy and planning, Human agency, Spanish in contact with other languages, Minority language revitalization, Grassroots language practicesReferences
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