Analysis of language policy discourses across the scales of space and time
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Francis M. Hult
Abstract
The ecology of language has been put forward as a useful orientation to the holistic investigation of multilingual language policies because it draws attention to relationships among speakers, languages, policies, and social contexts at varying dimensions of social organization. As such, it is an orientation that stands to facilitate the integration of micro- and macro-sociolinguistic inquiry in language policy and planning (LPP); however, it is not a method. An ecological orientation requires the application of specific methods in order to achieve a holistic picture of an LPP situation. To this end, the present article explores how recent discourse analytic theories and methods that focus on ways in which discursive processes operate within and across space and time are especially well suited to the ecological objective of understanding relationships between language policies and the social actions of individuals.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Introduction
- Analysis of language policy discourses across the scales of space and time
- Rethinking the macro–micro relationship: some insights from the marketing domain
- Bilingualisms-in-practice at the meso level: an example from a bilingual school in Wales
- “We did what we thought was best for our children”: a nexus analysis of language shift in a Kven community
- Sámi language mobility: scales and discourses of multilingualism in a polycentric environment
- Book reviews
- Ethnic-racial reclassification and language revitalization among the Shiwilu from Peruvian Amazonia
