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Shin, Hyunjung; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This special issue aims to develop a research agenda that brings language to the centre of our inquiry and critique of neoliberalism. Based on empirical case studies from across diverse contexts in Europe, North America, and East Asia, contributors to this special issue address two issues: (1) What can be said about the nature of neoliberalism…
Descriptors: Language Research, Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Puigdevall, Maite; Walsh, John; Amorrortu, Estibaliz; Ortega, Ane – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
In this paper, we study the phenomenon of linguistic mudes or transformations in linguistic practices, in the case of highly proficient speakers of Irish, Basque and Catalan and we investigate the extent to which speakers in the three contexts share ideologies and experiences related to the process. Such an investigation will deepen understanding…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Irish, Sociolinguistics, Ideology
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Marko, Inazio; Pikabea, Inaki – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
The aim of this study is to develop a reference model for intervention in the language processes applied to the transformation of language normalisation within organisations of a socio-economic nature. It is based on a case study of an experiment carried out over 10 years within a trade union confederation, and has pursued a strategy of a…
Descriptors: Models, Intervention, Systems Approach, Grounded Theory
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De Korne, Haley; López Gopar, Mario E.; Rios Rios, Kiara – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Indigenous languages of Mexico have largely been excluded from formal education spaces. This ethnographic action research study highlights a context where "Diidxazá"/ Isthmus Zapotec, an Indigenous language of Oaxaca, has recently begun to be taught in higher education. We examine the ways that administrators, the teacher, and students…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Minorities, Action Research, Ethnography
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Schartner, Alina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Educational sojourns abroad are not only increasingly popular; it is also believed that they have many positive outcomes for students. The transformative potential of a study sojourn abroad has been claimed in linguistic and broader intercultural terms (e.g. Brown [2009] "The Transformative Power of the International Sojourn: An Ethnographic…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Outcomes of Education
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Santipolo, Matteo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This paper, after shortly introducing "Folk Linguistics" by defining its domain of competence [cf. Preston, Dennis R., ed. 1999. "Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology." Amsterdam: John Benjamins; Niedzielski, Nancy A., and Dennis R. Preston. 2003. "Folk Linguistics." Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter], attempts to draw an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Linguistics, Folk Culture, Self Concept
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Canagarajah, Suresh; Matsumoto, Yumi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Voice in mobile texts has received attention lately among scholars in literacy, sociolinguistics, and rhetoric. Some sociolinguists of globalisation have argued that uptake is shaped by the norms of each literacy regime. Though texts of non-western communities will gain positive uptake in local literacy regimes according to their own norms and…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Global Approach, Literacy, Non Western Civilization
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Gogonas, Nikos; Michail, Domna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
The focus of this paper is on the relationship between Albanian speakers' ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) perceptions and their language maintenance, language use and choice patterns. A subjective EV questionnaire, and a language usage questionnaire capturing domain-specific language use was completed by 200 Albanian immigrants of first and second…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Correlation, Language Maintenance, Questionnaires
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Mortensen, Janus – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
Internationalisation is a buzzword in European higher education, and many universities work hard to devise and implement strategies that will help facilitate increased transnational student mobility. In this context, English is commonly seen as the "natural" choice for university internationalisation, and English is accordingly promoted…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Moring, Tom; Husband, Charles; Lojander-Visapaa, Catharina; Vincze, Laszlo; Fomina, Joanna; Manty, Nadja Nieminen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
This article addresses the relationships between media, media use and language retention. In pursuing this aim, we explore the utility of ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) as a fruitful conceptual tool. The extant research on the relationship between the media and language retention and development provides an encouragement to pursue in more detail…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Bilingualism, Language Research, Case Studies
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Ljosland, Ragnhild – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
Having been the scene of language planning for more than a century in relation to the two competing written standards of Norwegian, Norwegian language planners are now facing a new challenge: how to deal with what has been termed "domain loss" where Norwegian is perceived as losing out to English in important sectors of society,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language of Instruction, Higher Education
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Kraut, Rachel; Wulff, Stefanie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
Seventy-eight native English speakers rated the foreign-accented speech (FAS) of 24 international students enrolled in an Intensive English programme at a public university in Texas on degree of accent, comprehensibility and communicative ability. Variables considered to potentially impact listeners' ratings were the sex of the speaker, the first…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Case Studies, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction
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Paulston, C. Bratt; And Others – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
Language revival, language revitalization, and language reversal are argued to constitute three separate phenomena within language regenesis. A comparison of case studies from 14 countries--all involving group behavior related to the increased use of dead, dying, or neglected languages--is used to establish a clear and common terminology for these…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Definitions, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance
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Verschik, Anna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
The present paper concentrates on several issues relevant to research into multilingualism in Estonia. It is argued that a macrosociolinguistic approach is insufficient when not counterbalanced with microsociolinguistic studies (case studies of actual linguistic behaviour, linguistic creativity, mechanisms and practices of multilingual…
Descriptors: Jews, Language Variation, Multilingualism, Language Role
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Aikio, Marjut – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Language use among linguistic minorities of the Northern Calotte (areas of Norway, Sweden, and Finland that lie above the Arctic Circle) is reviewed from the perspective of history and ecology of language. Two case studies examining language shift in these areas, where Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Sami are spoken, are also considered.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Size, Descriptive Linguistics, Family History
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