Bilingualisms-in-practice at the meso level: an example from a bilingual school in Wales
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Nigel Musk
Abstract
Bilingualism is to be seen as dynamic bilingualisms-in-practice, which are continually being “performed,” that is, shaped, valued, and constituted, both through discourses which (re)contextualize the notion, as well as through the everyday language practices of bilinguals. To shed light on bilingualisms-in-practice, primarily in the context of one bilingual school in Wales, a range of data is examined to identify prevalent discourses on bilingualism. It is argued here that the meso level of society, especially educational institutions, constitute a key site for the recontextualization of these discourses and thereby play an important mediating role between the micro and macro levels of society.
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- Analysis of language policy discourses across the scales of space and time
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- 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
