When analysing language cultivation in terms of the needs of modern language communities, the way its concepts are anchored in a specific historical context suggests that this is a now obsolete stream in language policy. In this paper, I reconsider the topic from a new perspective, seeing the tradition of language cultivation as an established space of public discussion which can also cater to the needs of late modern society. My discussion is founded on concepts such as communicative action, human rights and deliberative democracy.
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