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Van Hoof, Sarah – Language Policy, 2018
In the globalized economy, old metadiscursive regimes have been challenged by new conditions which are often considered to be more favourable to heteroglossic practices. In Flemish Belgium, the liberalization of the TV market is said to have transformed the broadcaster VRT from a public service aiming at educating viewers into a competitive…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Television, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries
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Sherman, Tamah; Švelch, Jaroslav – Language Policy, 2015
This paper uses Language Management Theory (Nekvapil and Sherman, "Language management in contact situations. Perspectives from three continents". Peter Lang, Frankfurt/Main, 2009) to investigate Facebook pages as a site and instrument of behavior-toward-language, focusing specifically on the use of humor. The language in question is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Usage, Grammar