Humans exhibit linguistic behaviour: we speak, listen, write, and read.Philosophers and linguists typically assume that this behaviour has to be explained with reference to linguistic knowledge .
Just as an expanded view of language policy now affords agenc y to many more actors across soci ety than authori ties and linguists alone, it also acce pts
that the disp ositions these agents bring to language affairs influe nce language policy processe s and outcomes.