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Kristof Savski – Language Policy, 2024
This article considers the role that the examination of text plays in empirical language policy research. It begins by examining the state-of-the-art in language policy, observing that a core focus on action represents a shared characteristic of the various strands of discursive and ethnographic research over the last two decades. That is, the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Discourse Analysis, Policy Analysis, Ethnography
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Phan, Nhan; Starks, Donna – Language Policy, 2020
This paper explores the interaction between linguistic landscapes and language policies of the Old Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam to investigate how legislated and de facto language policies come together to create lived monolingualism, multilingualism and hybridity in language displays in public spaces. Our research focuses on language policies as…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Monolingualism, Multilingualism, Public Policy
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Ashraf, Hina – Language Policy, 2023
Pakistan, one of the eight countries comprising South Asia, has more than 212.2 million people, making it the world's fifth most populous country after China, India, USA, and Indonesia. It has also the world's second-largest Muslim population. Eberhard et al. (Ethnologue: languages of the world, SIL International, 2020) report 77 languages used by…
Descriptors: Language Role, Urdu, Muslims, English (Second Language)
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Cavanaugh, Jillian R. – Language Policy, 2018
Although the relationship between language and economic activity has long been a topic of scholarly research, much of it building on the work of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu, recent attention to the commodification of language and its relationship to global economies and late capitalism moves this conversation in new directions. The…
Descriptors: Social Change, Sociolinguistics, Neoliberalism, Language Planning
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Al-Bataineh, Afaf – Language Policy, 2021
This article explores the linguistic tension resulting from the English-medium instruction policy at a state university in the UAE. The article is informed by a critical theoretical approach that views language policy from the vantage point of both Arabic and English. It argues that, contrary to the stated national and institutional goals, the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Civil Rights, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Augustyniak, Anna; Higham, Gwennan – Language Policy, 2019
This paper aims to illuminate the role of sub-state languages in the integration process of migrants in two sub-state regions: Wales in the UK and the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain. We investigate how language and the idea of 'belongingess' based on language learning and knowledge are constructed in the integration policies in these two…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Ethnography, Language Planning, Second Language Learning
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Muth, Sebastian – Language Policy, 2018
It is the aim of this paper to examine the management of multilingualism in the Swiss healthcare industry and the negotiation of the oftentimes fluctuating and unstable value of linguistic resources in the care for medical tourists; on the other hand highlighting how international healthcare and medical tourism emerge as sites emblematic of the…
Descriptors: Russian, Commercialization, Hospitals, Tourism
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Theodoropoulou, Irene – Language Policy, 2020
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the role of language in multilingual blue-collar workplaces by investigating how communication is realized in construction sites in Qatar. The State of Qatar offers a unique and, hence, very interesting setting for the linguistic investigation of migration-related issues, such as…
Descriptors: Construction (Process), Foreign Countries, Language Role, Multilingualism
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Mazlum, Farhad – Language Policy, 2022
Choosing which additional language to include in national curricula and when to begin teaching it are important educational policy decisions. The current study aims to provide a contextually embedded picture of such policymaking process in the Iranian context. More specifically, the study is intended to explain the agency mechanism of different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Language Planning
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Hoenes del Pinal, Eric – Language Policy, 2016
One of the most far-reaching reforms undertaken by the Catholic Church as part of the Second Vatican Council was the adoption of vernacular languages in the liturgy. The transition from Latin to vernaculars was not unproblematic, however, as it raised several practical and theoretical questions regarding the relationship between local churches and…
Descriptors: Catholics, American Indian Languages, Churches, Bilingualism