Language Policy Beyond the State

Language Policy Beyond the State

Author: Maarja Siiner

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-04

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 3319529935

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Language Policy beyond the State invites readers to (re-)consider the ways language policy is constituted, taken up, and researched if we look within and past the state. Contributors to this edited volume draw attention to language policy as always in the making, focusing on agency, on-the-ground practices, and ideologies. The chapters of the book reveal how simultaneous, and at times contradicting, language policies exist within a state and explore the complex roles played by families, businesses, educational institutions, and media in generating and appropriating these policies. By moving away from language policy analysis concerned primarily with how official state policies address well-defined language problems, some of the contributions of the volume highlight how the problems themselves can be ideological artifacts or are discursively constructed in language ideological debates that are provoked by changes in the geopolitical situation in the region. Using qualitative and descriptive research, the book uses Estonia as a setting to examine the ways historic and contemporary populations navigate language policies in both local and transnational spaces. As a whole, the collection speaks eloquently and powerfully to current efforts to understand and map the ways multiple institutions and individuals—not just the state—play an active role in forming and taking up language policies.


Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA

Sociopolitical Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning in the USA

Author: Thom Huebner

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9789027241238

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In the third part some practical issues are raised by looking into the role of language and culture in teaching reading, foreign language policy in higher education, Hawaiian language regenesis, and gender neutralization in American English."--BOOK JACKET.


Language Policy

Language Policy

Author: Elana Shohamy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-05-02

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 113433351X

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Policies concerning language use are increasingly tested in an age of frequent migration and cultural synthesis. With conflicting factors and changing political climates influencing the policy-makers, Elana Shohamy considers the effects that these policies have on the real people involved. Using examples from the US and UK, she shows how language policies are promoted and imposed, overtly and covertly, across different countries and in different contexts. Concluding with arguments for a more democratic and open approach to language policy and planning, the final note is one of optimism, suggesting strategies for resistance to language attrition and ways to protect the linguistic rights of groups and individuals.


Planning Language, Planning Inequality

Planning Language, Planning Inequality

Author: James W. Tollefson

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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An examination of how an individual's native language can affect their lifestyle. Topics covered range from maintenance of the mother-tongue and second language learning, to the ideology of language planning theory, to education and language rights.


Language Policy

Language Policy

Author: Elana Shohamy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-05-02

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1134333528

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A critical look at language policies, how they are implemented and the hidden agendas which often lie behind them, drawing on examples from the US and UK and showing what the consequences are for the people involved.


Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities

Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities

Author: Josep Soler

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-01-14

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1501505890

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Many universities around the world are actively engaged in the process of the internationalization of their higher education systems, trying to become more competitive in all possible respects, especially in the areas of research and teaching. Language, naturally, plays a central role in this process, but this is not always explicitly recognized as such. As a result, key sociolinguistic challenges emerge for both individuals and groups of people. Most prominently, the question of whether English constitutes an opportunity or a threat to other national languages in academic domains is a controversial one and remains unresolved. The analysis featured in this book aims at addressing this question by looking at language policy developments in the context of Estonian higher education. Adopting a discourse approach, the book emphasises the centrality of language not only as a site of struggle, but as a tool and a resource that agents in a give field utilize to orient themselves in certain positions. The book will be of interest to language policy scholars, linguistic anthropologists, and critical sociolinguists. Education scholars interested in discourse studies will also find it useful.


Language Management

Language Management

Author: Bernard Spolsky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-02

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0521516099

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This book was the first book to present a specific theory of language management.


Multilingualism in the Baltic States

Multilingualism in the Baltic States

Author: Sanita Lazdiņa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-03

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 113756914X

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This edited collection provides an overview of linguistic diversity, societal discourses and interaction between majorities and minorities in the Baltic States. It presents a wide range of methods and research paradigms including folk linguistics, discourse analysis, narrative analyses, code alternation, ethnographic observations, language learning motivation, languages in education and language acquisition. Grouped thematically, its chapters examine regional varieties and minority languages (Latgalian, Võro, urban dialects in Lithuania, Polish in Lithuania); the integration of the Russian language and its speakers; and the role of international languages like English in Baltic societies. The editors’ introductory and concluding chapters provide a comparative perspective that situates these issues within the particular history of the region and broader debates on language and nationalism at a time of both increased globalization and ethno-regionalism. This book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language discourses and language policy, and provide a valuable resource for researchers focusing on Baltic States, Northern Europe and the post-Soviet world in the related fields of history, political science, sociology and anthropology.


Language Contact. Volume 1

Language Contact. Volume 1

Author: Jeroen Darquennes

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-08-19

Total Pages: 868

ISBN-13: 3110435357

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Language Contact. An International Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of current topics in research on language contact. Broadly conceived, it stands out for its international approach to language contact, complementing the theoretical state-of-the-art with examples from traditionally eclipsed areas and languages. Next to a thorough introductory overview of the ground-breaking methodological and theoretical approaches that shaped the discipline, ample attention goes to the new and innovative insights on language contact in the 21st century. Combining concise introductory contributions with in-depth treatment of the most relevant case studies in the field, the handbook speaks to both junior and established scholars.