WP306 When language policy is not enough
Smagulova
2022
Collection: Uncategorized Key words Kazakhstan, language policy, language revitalization, social inequality
Abstract
By focusing predominantly on discourse production and language management, language policy research de-emphasizes the material sources of inequality. The paper argues that language management, often restricted by ritualistic and symbolic gestures, cannot rectify historically formed relations of power, and it calls for critical examination of both sociolinguistic and socio-economic consequences of language reforms.