Discursive Approaches to Language Policy
“Discursive Approaches to Language Policy” by Elisabeth Barakos, published by Palgrave Macmillan UK on December 20, 2016, is a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between language policy and discourse studies. This first edition, comprising 299 pages, presents a multidisciplinary perspective that integrates theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights from various scholars in the fields of language policy and planning, as well as discourse studies.
Readers will find a diverse range of research contexts discussed, including education in Paraguay and Luxembourg, business practices in Wales, and regional English language policies in Tajikistan. The book invites critical reflection on the interplay between language policy and discourse across social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions. Utilizing frameworks such as discourse analysis, anthropology, ethnography, and critical sociolinguistics, the contributors examine the complex and dynamic nature of language policy as both a mechanism for social change and a means of perpetuating existing power structures and inequalities.
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This book brings together the fields of language policy and discourse studies from a multidisciplinary theoretical, methodological and empirical perspective. The chapters in this volume are written by international scholars active in the field of language policy and planning and discourse studies. The diverse research contexts range from education in Paraguay and Luxembourg via businesses in Wales to regional English language policies in Tajikistan. Readers are thereby invited to think critically about the mutual relationship between language policy and discourse in a range of social, political, economic and cultural spheres. Using approaches that draw on discourse-analytic, anthropological, ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic frameworks, the contributors in this collection explore and refine the ‘discursive’ and the ‘critical’ aspects of language policy as a multilayered, fluid, ideological, discursive and social process that can operate as a tool of social change as well as reinforcing established power structures and inequalities.
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