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Language ideological landscapes for students in university language policies: inclusion, exclusion, or hierarchy
2022
Many universities in non-English speaking countries have been adopting English as a medium of instruction to internationalize their education. We set out to compare the language policies of a Finnish and a Japanese university using the lens of language ideology – a set of normative beliefs about the social dimension of language. Data were collected from selected documents of the two universities, and analyzed utilizing critical discursive psychology. This social constructionist approach allows mapping out language ideological landscapes – interrelationships among different co-occurring language ideologies – from which students may draw ideas about how they orient themselves towards their pe…
“You wouldn't think we’d have that much problems speaking our own language” : Irish university students’ attitudes towards their vernacular
2012
Tämä tutkielma pyrkii selvittämään irlantilaisten yliopisto-opiskelijoiden asenteita iirin kieltä kohtaan. Iiri on Irlannin kansallinen ja ensimmäinen virallinen kieli, ja sen opiskelu on peruskoulussa pakollista. Kuitenkin vain alle puolet irlantilaisista sanoo osaavansa iiriä ja alle kaksi prosenttia käyttää sitä päivittäin. Iiriin liittyvät asennetutkimukset ovat vanhentuneita, sillä uusin koko maan kattava tutkimus toteutettiin vuonna 1993. 2010-luvulla kaksi tutkijaa on tarkastellut irlantilaisten yliopisto-opiskelijoiden asenteita iirin kieleen, mutta nämä tutkimukset ovat määrällisiä ja jättävät aukon laadulliselle tutkimukselle, jotta määrällisissä tutkimuksissa saatuja tuloksia voi…
Stalin’s critique of the idea of the class character of language
2020
Shedding light on the different Soviet linguistic approaches to the phenomenon of the class character of language, this paper shows that Stalin’s 1950 critique of Nikolaj Marr’s views echoed criticism that had already been addressed to Marr by his contemporaries. The idea of the class character of language did not amount to a single coherent theory, in Soviet linguistics, of social and linguistic structures, but in many cases remained an abstract theoretical construct. Even if some linguists manifestly subscribed to the Marrist dogma, it did not immediately follow that the idea of the class character of language had exerted significant influence on the actual analysis of language material. …