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WP317 Linguistic Citizenship
2023
This paper explores the notion of Linguistic Citizenship, a term coined by Chris Stroud at the turn of the millennium in Southern Africa to draw attention to ‘grassroots’ engagements with language (specifically multilingualism) as a dynamic of …
Key words: decolonisation, education, language ideology, Linguistic Citizenship, multilingualism
WP261 How we feel and think about language: Language ideologies and the 'total linguistic fact'
2019
To analyse people?s thoughts, beliefs and feelings language and languages, sociolinguists have developed the concept of ?language ideology?. The goal is to understand …
Key words: language ideology
WP186 Language ideologies in the narrative practices of Latin American parents in the Catalan education system
2016
This paper discusses the circulation of language ideologies through narrative practices among Latin American parents in the secondary education system in Catalonia. Data from a 2011-2013 linguistic ethnography include observations made in the …
Key words: language ideology
WP129 Mandarin Chinese in London education: Language aspirations in a working-class secondary school
2014
s the Council of Europe is shifting its traditional focus on learning European languages towards emphasizing the importance of speaking other languages of the wider world, an increasing number of schools are offering Mandarin as part of their …
Key words: institutional neoliberalization., language ideology, language policy, Mandarin language education, multilingualism