Search results for "language planning"
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Putting resources into practice: a nexus analysis of knowledge mobilisation activities in language research and multilingual communities
2014
Recent demand within the academy for language research that bridges different stakeholders renders the social relevance of research a factor in the academic competition for research funds [Curry, M. J., & Lillis, T. (2013). Introduction to the thematic issue: Participating in academic publishing – consequences of linguistic policies and practices. Language Policy, 12, 209–213]. This calls for new means and innovations for designing and carrying out knowledge mobilisation activities, with consequences concerning where, how and with whom this type of undertaking can or should be done. In this paper we, a team of (multilingual) researchers working within the fields of multilingualism, minority…
Constructions of bilingualism in Finnish Government programmes and a newspaper discussion site debate
2014
The concept of bilingualism in Finnish political discourse is predominantly used in the meaning of official or state bilingualism, focussing on the two constitutionally defined ‘national languages’; i.e. Finnish and Swedish. Legally, both Finnish and Swedish speakers have a right for public services, such as schooling or health care, in their first language. On the other hand, several language ideological debates have taken place in recent years, challenging especially the status of Swedish in administration and education. These debates have reshaped the discourses on what counts as bilingualism. This paper analyses on one hand the historical discursive development of the “official will” pr…
Frozen actions in the Arctic linguistic landscape: a nexus analysis of language processes in visual space
2011
Abstract This article examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of seven villages above the Arctic Circle, in the region called North Calotte. The area forms a complex nexus of contested and changing multilingualism, particularly as regards to endangered indigenous Sami languages and Kven and Meankieli minority languages. Viewing LL as a discursively constructed space and consequently signs as ‘frozed actions’ by various actors, and by adopting a Nexus analytical approach we examine three interrelated aspects of Arctic LLs: (1) the synchronic aspect by addressing the question of how languages are used in the landscapes of northern villages in the year 2008; (2) the historical aspect through id…
The changing schoolscape in a Szekler village in Romania: signs of diversity in rehungarization
2015
In this paper, we explore the connections between a linguistic landscape and language ideologies in an elementary school in a village within the Hungarian region of Szeklerland in Romania. This ‘schoolscape’ is analysed as a display or materialization of the ‘hidden curriculum’ regarding the construction of linguistic and cultural identities. We draw on fieldwork carried out in 2012 and 2013 and examine two dimensions of change in progress: (1) changes in the use of Hungarian and Romanian as languages of teaching and learning and as languages of written administration; and (2) changes in the display of these languages in the schoolscape. Since 1990, there has been a tendency towards rehunga…
Unity in Discourse, Diversity in Practice: The One Person One Language Policy in Bilingual Families
2013
When parents with different first languages have a child, and want the child to become bilingual in both languages, many parents adopt the one person – one language (OPOL) strategy. This chapter uses nexus analysis (Scollon R, Scollon SW, Nexus analysis. Discourse and the emerging internet. Routledge, London, 2004) to carry out a discourse analysis of ways in which this strategy is motivated by parents and ways it is enacted in conversations between parents and children, in three Swedish-Finnish bilingual families with 3–4 year old children in Finland. We also look at how the children participate in the negotiation of family language policy. Parents were interviewed about their own language…
The early childhood education and care partnership for bilingualism in minority language schooling : collaboration between bilingual families and ped…
2016
Educational partnerships occur at the intersection of early childhood education and care (ECEC), families, and the surrounding community, and have been shown to play a significant role in student success rates in education. There is, however, a gap in research on the role and potential of ‘partnership’ in the case of bilingual families with children enrolled in monolingual minority language ECEC. This study aimed to fill this void by examining parental and practitioner discourses on partnership and on obligations, desires, abilities, and competencies involved in acting on a bilingual childhood in the context of monolingual minority ECEC. Parents in nine Finnish–Swedish bilingual families an…
ISO 639, Yosemite e App che “parlano” dialetto. Qualche reazione e riflessione
2016
Quale teoria e concezione del dialetto soggiace all’idea di descrivere il siciliano come «abbastanza distinto dall’italiano tipico tanto da poter essere considerato un idioma separato» (Ethnologue, MOSELEY e ASHER 1994, 54)? Un certo ruolo deve avere la distorta pratica di valutare le varietà dell’italoromanzo come dialetti dell’italiano, pratica, questa, che, per altro, induce a proporre separazioni e distinzioni al punto da invocare, per alcune di queste varietà, lo statuto di «lingue madri». Se poi queste “lingue”, nella prospettiva ecolinguistica, presentano una serie di condizioni che ne mettono a rischio la sopravvivenza, entrano ne “Il Libro Rosso delle lingue in pericolo” (Red Book …
Sobre el «marc de condicions sociolingüístiques favorables» per a la implantació de la normativa lingüística
2016
Resum: Aquest treball pretén desplegar conceptualment la unitat lèxica marc de condicions sociolingüístiques favorables proposada per F. X. Vila, M. Nogué i I. Vila a fi que sigui acadèmicament operativa per analitzar quins són els factors que afavoririen la implantació de la normativa. Per fer-ho partirem, entre altres, d’una concepció àmplia de la «sociolingüística catalana» i de treballs nostres. A partir d’aquesta concepció, analitzarem quins factors podrien afavorir la implantació de la normativa. I ho farem seguint les fases que normalment segueix la implantació de les normes: codificació (incloent-hi la selecció), difusió, i implantació o no implantació. Dins de cada una de les fases…
(Eco)linguistic planning and language-exchange management
2010
This article is the English version of "Planificació (eco)lingüística i gestió dels intercanvis lingüístics" by Oscar Diaz Fouces. It was not published on the print version of MonTI for reasons of space. The online version of MonTI does not suffer from these limitations, and this is our way of promoting plurilingualism. The author presents a range of policies aimed at maintaining the integrity of the ecolinguistic spaces related to translation, language teaching, to the exchange of cultural products and, in general, to the management of linguistic interchanges. L’autor presenta un ventall de polítiques orientades a mantenir la integritat dels espais ecolingüístics, relacionades amb la tradu…
La dialèctica corpus/estatus en la història de la llengua catalana. Cap a una explicació integral dels canvis lingüístics
2021
En aquest article advoquem per la superació de les dicotomies que parcel·len l’estudi dels fets de llengua (sincronia vs. diacronia, lingüística vs. sociolingüística, història interna vs. història externa), en pro d’un atansament que integri el màxim nombre de factors explicatius possibles. Un àmbit propici per a aquesta confluència és l’anàlisi dels canvis lingüístics en curs, que són aquells que tenen lloc en temps real davant dels ulls de l’investigador, el qual es pot beneficiar així de la proximitat a l’objecte d’estudi i de l’accessibilitat als múltiples factors que en condicionen l’evolució, sempre que sigui capaç de no implicar-s’hi en excés. L’anàlisi de les transformacions que s’o…