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Georgiou, Vasiliki – Language Policy, 2011
This paper presents key insights from the analysis of a language debate in Cyprus, triggered when a number of individuals and groups refused to endorse the standardisation of the orthography of place names and the argumentation through which it was supported. The paper is based on a collection of newspaper texts and related documents and is…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Persuasive Discourse, Ideology, Foreign Countries
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De Costa, Peter I. – Language Policy, 2010
This article reports on year-long critical ethnographic study conducted in a Singapore school and examines how the standard English language educational policy is interpreted by a Secondary 3 (Grade 9) female student from China. She is a member of an exclusive group of academically able students who has been carefully recruited by the local…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Planning, Design, Ethnography