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Barrett, Tyler – Language Policy, 2017
This paper is aimed at understanding the language policy of Japanese ethnic churches and the legitimization of church member identities in the midst of dominant languages in Canada. While church members often construct Japanese ethnic Christian churches with 'grassroots' language policies that seem to legitimize their Japanese language and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Minority Groups, Language Minorities
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Fogle, Lyn Wright – Language Policy, 2013
Family language policy refers to explicit and overt decisions parents make about language use and language learning as well as implicit processes that legitimize certain language and literacy practices over others in the home. Studies in family language policy have emphasized the ways in which family-internal processes are shaped by and shape…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multiple Literacies, Language Usage, Interviews
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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