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WP309 Language policy 4.0
2023
Media in general, and, in particular new media that are the product of digital technology, have not been a key domain of study in language policy and language planning. However, such media have increasingly become central sites of everyday linguistic …
Key words: agency, language policy, technology, Web 4.0
WP308 ESOL and Linguistic Citizenship: Practical actions amid policy neglect
2023
This paper describes national policy for teaching English to adult migrants in England, and asks what ESOL teaching can do to overcome the fragmentation and hostility it finds, opening up to multilingualism instead. After a historical sketch of …
Key words: adult education, ESOL, language policy, Linguistic Citizenship
WP307 Decolonising language in the city: Multilingual repertoires, institutional practice and civic engagement in a UK urban setting
2023
In this paper I examine how multilingual spaces emerge within institutions across a number of sectors in the city. Drawing on their repertoires of linguistic resources actors (institutional agents and clients) assume agency to change practice and …
Key words: civic engagement, decolonisation, higher education, language policy, multilingualism
WP272 English and development: Voices from two rural Bangladeshi madrasas
2020
Because of its global status, donors and states both promote English for the economic development of countries in the global South such as Bangladesh. National and western discourses propose that people in madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) …
Key words: English for development, language policy
WP248 Advocating heteroglossia, dominating publics?
2019
In this paper, I address the fact that sociolinguists often advocate heteroglossic policies in education (and other monolingually organised domains) without extending this heteroglossia to public debate about language policy. At least there are …
Key words: language policy
WP231 Regimenting academic discourse: Additional-language summaries as an equivocal remedy for Anglophone science
2017
The dominance of English in scientific production raises issues in relation to certain responsibilities of Swedish universities, linked to the dissemination of knowledge and the development of the Swedish language. In light of this, the current paper …
Key words: education, language policy
WP225 Structures of feeling in language policy: The case of Tibetan in China
2017
Though widely regarded as a relevant research approach, the field of ethnography of language policy still faces challenges that need attention. On the one hand, research on language policy continues to put ethnography aside in many national regions. …
Key words: language policy
WP203 Regimenting Övdalsk: Sociolinguistic differentiation and the spectre of the European Charter in Sweden's language politics
2016
This paper deals with symbolic power and the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages (ECRML). Tracing some recent developments in Sweden?s language politics (1997?2015), it focuses primarily on the politics of sociolinguistic …
Key words: language policy
WP194 Security & language policy.
2016
This paper draws critical security studies into the investigation of language policy for two reasons.? First, critical security studies provides informative commentary on how ?security? is now being reconfigured, with developments in digital …
Key words: language policy, security
WP146 Language Education Policy in Late Modernity: (Socio)linguistic ethnographies in the European Union
2015
Focusing on developments in research on language education policy, this short paper begins with a sketch of the new problem space emerging at the intersection of intensified transnational mobility, expanding economic neo-liberalisation and the …
Key words: education, language policy
WP142 Roma integration and evidence-based policy making
2014
Executive summary …
Key words: language policy, Roma
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
WP93 Harmony as language policy in China: An internet perspective
2012
This paper provides an ethnographic understanding of harmony as language policy in China. We ground this understanding in a historical analysis of ?harmony? as a distinct traditional Chinese ideal that gradually finds its new expressions through …
Key words: language policy
WP63 Policy, policing & the ecology of social norms: Ethnographic monitoring revisited
2010
Ethnography and Language Policy represents an attempt towards paradigmatic change in the study of language policy. The attempt ? characterized by the editor in terms of Hymes? ?ethnographic monitoring? ? consists of a series of shifts in objects, …
Key words: language policy