Polityka językowa a kultura języka

This paper discusses the relation between language policy and language culture – two fundamental notions in prescriptive linguistics. Both terms and their contents can be understood differently (as manifest in their definitions). It turns out that particularly the concept behind language policy has various meanings and the contents it encompasses can be classified into 6 groups. Depending on the adopted definitions, both analysed notions can even be – in extreme cases – equated or understood as separate. Most commonly, language policy, defined as a set of various planned and coordinated actions related to the language system and/or language awareness of users, is situated as a part of language culture – within its functional meaning.