There are three fields of language planning - status, corpus, and, acquisition - and three types of actors: individuals, communities, and states.
The actors are able to reach common agreement on their preferences and are open to ties with other parties.
The actors not only double up to play different parts, but also perform different roles as entertainers, musicians, and storytellers.
Intellectuals would have to be compared with social actors other than intellectuals and with non-intellectual modes of action (supposing these exist).
Structural connectedness is based on the idea that policy is made within a context of a network of actors and institutions.
In both cases the historical actor becomes a subject, his conceptual world derives from his position in a structural relationship only.
These master actors teach their students the repertoire of their particular genres by having them copy what they do.
Political support by national actors, however, was not sufficient to motivate effective adaptation.
