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Nazgul Bayetova; Douglas L. Robertson – Power and Education, 2025
Globalism is a neoliberally influenced focus on world markets and the knowledge economy particularly from the perspective of transnational economic entities. Nationalism concentrates on promoting the country as an entity distinct and special among other countries. When combined, as in Kazakhstan's case, the two perspectives constitute a paradox.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nationalism, Global Approach, Neoliberalism
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Cavanaugh, Jillian R. – Language Policy, 2018
Although the relationship between language and economic activity has long been a topic of scholarly research, much of it building on the work of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu, recent attention to the commodification of language and its relationship to global economies and late capitalism moves this conversation in new directions. The…
Descriptors: Social Change, Sociolinguistics, Neoliberalism, Language Planning
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Li, Jia; Zheng, Yongyan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Drawn on the notion of linguistic entrepreneurship (De Costa, P., Park, J. S., & Wee, L. (2016). Language learning as linguistic entrepreneurship: Implications for language education. "Asia-Pacific Education Research," 25(5-6), 695-702, De Costa, P., Park, J. S., & Wee, L. (2019). Linguistic entrepreneurship as affective regime:…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Entrepreneurship
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Muth, Sebastian – Language Policy, 2018
It is the aim of this paper to examine the management of multilingualism in the Swiss healthcare industry and the negotiation of the oftentimes fluctuating and unstable value of linguistic resources in the care for medical tourists; on the other hand highlighting how international healthcare and medical tourism emerge as sites emblematic of the…
Descriptors: Russian, Commercialization, Hospitals, Tourism
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Mazlum, Farhad – Language Policy, 2022
Choosing which additional language to include in national curricula and when to begin teaching it are important educational policy decisions. The current study aims to provide a contextually embedded picture of such policymaking process in the Iranian context. More specifically, the study is intended to explain the agency mechanism of different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Language Planning
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Smith, Michael D. – Educational Policy, 2022
In Japan, neoliberal discourses rationalize English language proficiency as a pathway to meritocratic reward and success in the global knowledge economy. With this ideology in mind, this review engages the market orientation of English domestically and the causative implications of class-distinguished capital. Specifically, Bourdieu's theory of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning