ABSTRACT

This study discusses agency in language policy and planning (LPP) development from the perspective of Brazilian national language policies reflected in the local LPP programme/initiative of a public university in the Southeast region of the country. With that goal, national and local (institutional) documents are analysed and contrasted with the perceptions of local agents – or people with interest in Baldauf's terminology – comprised of students of a Brazilian government-funded programme called Languages without Borders (LwB) at that university. The perceptions of the academic community (students, lecturers and administrative staff) were obtained through an online questionnaire. The results show that top-down national policies had a great impact on the development of local policies, leaving little room for bottom-up local agency. The study concludes that the university lacked a coherent language approach that connected the macro, meso and micro levels and the four categories of agents, namely, people with power, people with expertise, people with influence and people with interest.

摘要

这项研究从巴西LPP计划/该国东南地区一所公立大学的倡议中所反映的巴西国家语言政策的角度，讨论了语言政策和计划（LPP）发展方面的代理。为此，将分析国家和地方（机构）文件，并与当地代理人或有兴趣的人的看法进行对比巴尔道夫（Baldauf）的术语–由该国政府资助的巴西无国界语言（LwB）课程的学生组成。通过在线调查表获得了学术界（学生，讲师和行政人员）的看法。结果表明，自上而下的国家政策对地方政策的制定有很大影响，而自下而上的地方机构几乎没有余地。该研究的结论是，大学缺乏所连接的宏观，中观和微观层面和四类药物连贯的语言方式，即人与权力，具有专长的人，人的影响力和人的兴趣。