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Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Shannon – Language Policy, 2019
Lo Bianco (Curr Issues Lang Plan 9(2):155-178, 2008) proposed an "ensemble of [three] activities" that comprise language policy: the "textual," "discursive," and "public performance" (p. 157). When expressed in language, the current study proposes that each of Lo Bianco's three activities (text, discourse,…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Language Usage, Social Environment
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Sheyholislami, Jaffer – Language Policy, 2010
This paper draws on theories that describe interrelationships between identity, language and the media to investigate how the Kurds utilise two forms of electronic media--satellite television and the Internet--to construct their identities. The data for this study is generated from four sources: a Kurdish satellite television channel (Kurdistan…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Ethnography, Audiences, Data Analysis
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Morgan, Brian; Ramanathan, Vaidehi – Language Policy, 2009
This paper offers a dialogic discussion about several issues concerning call centers, including globalizing surges, modernity tropes and educational practices. Based on a critical discourse analysis of a document offering to train west-based entrepreneurs to assume managerial positions in call centers in India, the paper explores ways in which…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Variation, Discourse Analysis, Educational Practices