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Kai Zhu; Shanhua He – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study investigates the language ideologies manifested in the linguistic hierarchies produced by relevant EU governmental/political institutions through their language requirements for visa application documents. Based on the theoretical framework of Language Management Theory (LMT), this study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Public Policy, Native Language
Kohler, Alan Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Metonymic and metaphoric language are thoroughly present in everyday language, so much so that they hold in themselves strong explanatory capacity to uncover and even influence underlying individual or social/cultural ideological systems and beliefs about the world around us (Catalano & Waugh, 2013; 2014; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). The…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Higher Education, Language Usage, Figurative Language
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Liang, Feng; Shin, Dong-shin – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2019
The authors examine how the Mandarin-Cantonese relationship has been ideologically and discursively perceived and constructed in China's language policy and planning, and Chinese people's reaction over the years by drawing on theories in critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, and language ideology. Data collection includes…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Mandarin Chinese, Self Concept, Correlation
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Ou, Wanyu Amy; Gu, Michelle Mingyue – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Previous research on classroom interaction in international university contexts tended to focus on individual speakers' language (in)competence. This paper adopts a translanguaging and spatial orientation to intercultural classroom interaction and highlights the role of situated assemblages of linguistic, semiotic and multimodal resources embedded…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, College Faculty, College Students
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Luqiu, Luwei Rose – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
The Internet is used to create a grassroots counter-hegemony force. However, how individuals can effect changes to the development of language policies, especially in contexts such as China, is understudied. This study analyses three different forms of online activities -- self-generating content, interaction, and discussion -- to demonstrate how…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Public Policy, Internet, Discourse Analysis
Pöyhönen, Sari; Saarinen, Taina – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
The concept of bilingualism in Finnish political discourse is predominantly used in the meaning of official or state bilingualism, focusing on the two constitutionally defined "national languages;" that is, Finnish and Swedish. Legally, both Finnish and Swedish-speakers have a right for public services, such as schooling or health care,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Language Attitudes, Swedish
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de Mejía, Anne-Marie – Language and Education, 2017
Despite Colombia's official recognition of its ethnic and cultural diversity, it has yet to develop in practice an inclusive educational vision involving the recognition of diversity, as well as promoting the country's insertion within the global market. Garcia et al. acknowledge the importance of "cultivating" students' diverse…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction