glottopolitique

English translation: glottopolitics

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French term or phrase:glottopolitique
English translation:glottopolitics

09:18 Feb 26, 2015
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French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Linguistics
French term or phrase: glottopolitique
I posted a question last night but had the source word incorrect, no wonder I couldn't find a translation! I think it means something like "linguistic policy" in this context but would appreciate your opinions

L’université de Corse s’intéresse à des questions telles que celle du développement de la langue corse, des langues régionales en général, du bilinguisme, du plurilinguisme et de l’interculturalité. De la même façon, elle étudie l’ensemble des décisions, des événements et des faits qui ont trait à la glottopolitique


It is for an assignment, the source text is taken from a journal about linguistics, it is an introduction to an article about research into the use of the Corsican language.
Katherine Rutter
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:06
glottopolitics
Explanation:
As this is an academic context, you need to retain the academic term and not paraphrase it. Particularly in the social sciences, people can considerably advance their careers by coining a new term in their subject area and getting it widely accepted by their peers. ;)

La glottopolitique est un concept sociolinguistique. Selon J.-B. Marcellesi et L. Guespin, la glottopolitique désigne les diverses approches qu’une société a de l’action sur le langage, qu’elle en soit consciente ou non consciente : action sur la langue, quand la société légifère sur les statuts ...
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottopolitique

link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-94-011-4538-1.pdf
Guespin and Marcellesi (1986: p. 5) developed the concept of 'glotto-politique' which covers 'all the language phenomena where societal actions take the form ...

commons.mla.org/.../glottopolitics-and-language-ideologies-in-la-guinea...
In 1986, Guespin and Marcellesi rework the concept 'glottopolitique' to expand its meaning towards all language acts where the action of the society adopts the ...

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0773590803
Michael A. Morris - 2010 - ‎Political Science
... notes 1 In this text, the term “glotto-political” will be used as the adjective for “language policy.” Moreover ... to the definition in Guespin and Marcellesi, 1986.

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0773537058
Michael A. Morris - 2010 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
Guespin and Marcellesi (1986) made an important distinction between the practice of language politics (which they call glotto-politics) and its analysis.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1109099754
David Jennings Gramling - 2008
... sound arguments for the use of "polylingual" over "multilingual," or "glottopolitics" over "language planning,"79 we ... terminological question that is worth repeating here: 79 Respectively, Sternberg 1981 , and L. Guespin and J-B. Marcellesi.

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B D Finch
France
Local time: 03:06


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5 +2glottopolitics
B D Finch
3language politics
Jean-Claude Gouin
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language politics
Evgeny Artemov (X)

  

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language politics


Explanation:
La glottopolitique est l'analyse des décisions politiques sur la linguistique ...

Jean-Claude Gouin
Canada
Local time: 21:06
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
glottopolitics


Explanation:
As this is an academic context, you need to retain the academic term and not paraphrase it. Particularly in the social sciences, people can considerably advance their careers by coining a new term in their subject area and getting it widely accepted by their peers. ;)

La glottopolitique est un concept sociolinguistique. Selon J.-B. Marcellesi et L. Guespin, la glottopolitique désigne les diverses approches qu’une société a de l’action sur le langage, qu’elle en soit consciente ou non consciente : action sur la langue, quand la société légifère sur les statuts ...
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottopolitique

link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-94-011-4538-1.pdf
Guespin and Marcellesi (1986: p. 5) developed the concept of 'glotto-politique' which covers 'all the language phenomena where societal actions take the form ...

commons.mla.org/.../glottopolitics-and-language-ideologies-in-la-guinea...
In 1986, Guespin and Marcellesi rework the concept 'glottopolitique' to expand its meaning towards all language acts where the action of the society adopts the ...

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0773590803
Michael A. Morris - 2010 - ‎Political Science
... notes 1 In this text, the term “glotto-political” will be used as the adjective for “language policy.” Moreover ... to the definition in Guespin and Marcellesi, 1986.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2015-02-26 16:53:14 GMT)
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https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0773537058
Michael A. Morris - 2010 - ‎Language Arts & Disciplines
Guespin and Marcellesi (1986) made an important distinction between the practice of language politics (which they call glotto-politics) and its analysis.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1109099754
David Jennings Gramling - 2008
... sound arguments for the use of "polylingual" over "multilingual," or "glottopolitics" over "language planning,"79 we ... terminological question that is worth repeating here: 79 Respectively, Sternberg 1981 , and L. Guespin and J-B. Marcellesi.



B D Finch
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agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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Reference: language politics

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I think this definition fits:


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_politics
Evgeny Artemov (X)
South Africa
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