Full Description
This book investigates the sociolinguistic dimension of the internationalisation of higher education, examining the linguistic tensions and ambiguities experienced by universities around the world, particularly in non-anglophone contexts. Joining current debates within discursive and ethnographic approaches to language policy, the authors analyse the narrative emerging from university language policy documents, and then trace the stance-taking processes of different stakeholders at a small university in Catalonia. They pay particular attention to how teachers, administrative staff, and exchange students position themselves in connection to the role of Catalan and its coexistence with other languages at the university. This book will be of interest to language policy scholars and practitioners, as well as graduate students in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Language policy and the internationalisation of higher education in Catalonia.- Chapter 2: Language policy, internationalisation, and multilingual higher education: An overview.- Chapter 3: Language policy regulations at Catalan universities: A content analysis of their narrative.- Chapter 4: Clashing stances towards Catalan: An ethnographic study in a small university in Catalonia.- Chapter 5: The internationalisation of Catalan universities: Multilevel language policies, circulating discourses, and stakeholders' stance-taking.- Chapter 6: Conclusions.
