Full Description
This book brings together the fields of language policy and discourse studies from a multidisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. The chapters in this volume are written by international scholars active in the field of language policy and planning and discourse studies. The diverse research contexts range from education in Paraguay and Luxembourg via businesses in Wales to regional English language policies in Tajikistan. Readers are thereby invited to think critically about the mutual relationship between language policy and discourse in a range of social, political, economic and cultural spheres. Using approaches that draw on discourse-analytic, anthropological, ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic frameworks, the contributors in this collection explore and refine the `discursive' and the `critical' aspects of language policy as a multilayered, fluid, ideological, discursive and social process that can operate as a tool of social change as well as reinforcing established power structures and inequalities.
Contents
Introductionnecessary?.- PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR DISCURSIVE APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE POLICY.- Chapter 1: Language policy and critical discourse studies: Towards a combined approach.- Chapter 2: State language policy in time and space: Meaning, transformation, recontextualisation.- Chapter 3: Language policy as metapragmatic discourse: A focus on the intersection of language approach to language policy as discursive action: Strengths, challenges and opportunities.- Chapter 5: Heteroglossic practices and language ideologies: Combining heteroglossia with critical discourse analysis to investigate digital multilingual discourses on language policies.- PART III EMPIRICAL flott Diskriminatioun?: Language and citizenship policy in Luxembourg as experience.- Chapter 7: Luxembourgish language-in-education policy in limbo: The tension between ideologies of authenticity and anonymity.- Chapter 8: Language ideologies regarding English-medium instruction in European higher education: Insights from Flanders and Finland.- Chapter 9: On `promoting and demanding' integration: A discursive case study of immigrant language policy in Basel.- Chapter 10: English language policy as ideology in multilingual Khorog, Tajikistan.- Chapter 11: Commentary.
