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Systematically explores the interconnectedness of language policy and discourse
Illustrates how to turn knowledge gained from research into practical applications to expose and remedy social inequalities and injustices
Explores language policy in terms of the multiple layers that are filtered through micro, meso, and macro level discourses
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Foundations
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Methodological Innovations
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Empirical Applications
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About this book
Reviews
“Discursive Approaches to Language Policies (DALP) is an outstanding and much needed book, for students and scholars alike. This volume succeeds in bringing together several research fields in a comprehensive, accessible and inspiring way: Sociolinguistics, Language Policy Research and Critical Discourse Studies. Such an innovative interdisciplinary approach to language policy, to debates about language ideologies and minority languages, allows for differentiated and careful analysis in selected case studies as well as for new theoretical, explanatory frameworks.” (Professor Ruth Wodak, Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University/University of Vienna)
“This book announces a decisive turn in language policy studies towards understanding policy as a discursive space in which valuable resources are at stake, indeed where there may be struggles over who decides what resources are valuable at all. This frame turns our attention to the forms of social action and the interests of social actors for whom the field of language is consequential, notably the state and its institutions, but also the private and NGO sectors. The book renders explicit the theoretical, methodological and socio-political consequences of this move, which are broadly applicable to any form of policy analysis.” (Professor Monica Heller, CREFO/OISE, University of Toronto)
“Barakos and Unger have assembled a collection of work at the cutting edge of language policy. The volume showcases the broad range of theoretical and methodological tools available to construct discursive studies of language policy that are both eclectic and rigorous. The contributions are models for researchers who seek to understand policy as action and process rather than as only textual product.” (Francis M. Hult, Associate Professor, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University)
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Elisabeth Barakos
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Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Johann W. Unger
About the editors
Johann W. Unger is a Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes at Lancaster University. He researches mainly in the areas of language policy and digitally mediated politics from a critical discourse studies perspective. His 2013 monograph The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language deals extensively with language policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discursive Approaches to Language Policy
Editors: Elisabeth Barakos, Johann W. Unger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53134-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53133-9Published: 20 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53134-6Published: 02 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 299
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Language Policy and Planning, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics