Language PolicyPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09665-4
Dana Osborne
{"title":"Language and late modernity: An archaeology of statal narratives of multilingualism in the Philippines","authors":"Dana Osborne","doi":"10.1007/s10993-023-09665-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-023-09665-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This analysis examines an archaeology of statal narratives as they relate to the multilingual linguistic milieu of the Philippines since independence at mid-20th century. Critical transformations to statal narratives linked to language over the last century have been shaped by interacting, sometimes competing discourses, deriving from a paradoxical mix of influences: on one hand, contemporary narratives of language have been shaped by modernist discourses focused on the unification of the nation through language, but more recently, these discourses have shifted to focus also on the possibilities of figuring certain local and regional languages in pragmatic terms that index an increasing orientation to preoccupations inherent in discourses of late modernity. In late modern contexts, discourses of multilingualism and multiculturalism in the Philippines have been intertwined with ideological orientations that promote regional peace, cooperation, and economic growth in part informed by the country’s involvement in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), where the recognition and maintenance of the multilingual and multicultural character of participating nations are framed as key mandates. By examining the emergence and transformation of discourses from modern to late modern ones at the level of the statal narrative, this analysis sheds light on emergent forms of nationalist narratives focused on both the instrumental value of global languages such as English, but also the valuation and figuration of certain local and regional languages in new ways and the contentious processes in history though which these discourses have taken hold.</p>","PeriodicalId":46781,"journal":{"name":"Language Policy","volume":"105 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language PolicyPub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09682-3
Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, Åsa Palviainen
{"title":"Ten years later: What has become of FLP?","authors":"Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, Åsa Palviainen","doi":"10.1007/s10993-023-09682-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-023-09682-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this special issue, we focus on how family language policy (FLP) as a field of enquiry has evolved over the ten years since the publication of the first thematic issue on FLP in <i>Language Policy</i> in 2013. We explore how some of the long-standing issues, such as language shift, language status and language attitude, have been addressed through the lens of raciolinguistic and critical theories, and how new challenges, such as digital communications, have shaped family language practices. We further explore how political conflicts have influenced families of forced migration and families in diasporic contexts, to redefine their identities through aspiration and illusion. By comparing with the first thematic issue, we outline in this volume how the contributing papers differ in their theoretical perspectives, epistemological stances and varied data sources to approach different aspects of FLP. The contributors herein explore different aspects of FLP in relation to multilingualism, involving indigenous and minority languages and in the contexts of UK, Norway, Finland, Mexico, Singapore and New Zealand. Entering into a new phase of FLP at a time with heightened political crisis and war in Europe and the Middle East, we argue that more interdisciplinary synergy should be sought to advance the field of FLP.</p>","PeriodicalId":46781,"journal":{"name":"Language Policy","volume":"110 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language PolicyPub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09677-0
Veronica Costea
{"title":"Abhimanyu Sharma: Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy (Evidence from Comparative Cases)","authors":"Veronica Costea","doi":"10.1007/s10993-023-09677-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-023-09677-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46781,"journal":{"name":"Language Policy","volume":" 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language PolicyPub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09674-3
Corinne A. Seals, Natalia Beliaeva
{"title":"Aspirational family language policy","authors":"Corinne A. Seals, Natalia Beliaeva","doi":"10.1007/s10993-023-09674-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-023-09674-3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The current article applies interactional sociolinguistic discourse analysis to interviews with three parents of Ukrainian families living in New Zealand to further complexify what we know about Family Language Policy (FLP) and language transmission. More specifically, this article theorizes what we call “Aspirational FLP”—when the desired imagined language identities of family members will require families to adopt an FLP that goes above and beyond what might otherwise be considered practical. In the case of our participants, this involves Ukrainians living in the diaspora who discuss the homeland’s “changing your mother tongue” discourse (from Russian to Ukrainian) and what this means when it involves replacing one heritage language with another when both are minority languages in the hostland. Additionally, we consider the importance of both homeland and hostland sociopolitical contexts, as the interviews reflect dominant discourses from both. Finally, our interview data occurs twice with the same participants (2014 and again in 2021), therein allowing us to investigate the participants’ Aspirational FLPs diachronically, bringing further insight to the dynamism of FLP. Our findings show that participants’ Aspirational FLPs are connected to both homeland and hostland sociopolitical contexts, and as such are dynamic and shifting. Aspirational FLPs also shift differently as individual family members’ investments and imagined future identities also shift. Furthermore, the longitudinal nature of the data sheds light on how and why Aspirational FLPs become reality for some families while they remain aspirational for others. We conclude that both local contexts and wider world contexts are important to consider when investigating FLP, and diachronic research is highly valuable for uncovering factors that contribute to the complexity of FLP, both Aspirational and realized.","PeriodicalId":46781,"journal":{"name":"Language Policy","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135634052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language PolicyPub Date : 2023-10-28DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09680-5
Yaqing Chen, Lan Ni
{"title":"Family language policy in Chinese d/Deaf-parented families with hearing children: the interplay of multi-dimensional factors","authors":"Yaqing Chen, Lan Ni","doi":"10.1007/s10993-023-09680-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-023-09680-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46781,"journal":{"name":"Language Policy","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136233490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language PolicyPub Date : 2023-10-21DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09673-4
Gregory Paul Glasgow
{"title":"Jef Verschueren: Complicity in Discourse and Practice","authors":"Gregory Paul Glasgow","doi":"10.1007/s10993-023-09673-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-023-09673-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46781,"journal":{"name":"Language Policy","volume":"68 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135510957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language PolicyPub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09671-6
Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
{"title":"Family, a racialized space: A phenomenological approach to examining Afghan refugee families’ language policies in Norway","authors":"Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi","doi":"10.1007/s10993-023-09671-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-023-09671-6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, I put forward and apply a phenomenological understanding of body and embodied experience to examine refugee families’ identity (trans)formation and language ideologies and practices. In particular, Kitarō Nishida’s (1870–1945) notion of historical body was adopted to investigate how Afghan refugee families’ lived experiences of forced mobility and life in different countries before their settlement in Norway influence their own as well as their children’s raciolinguistic and cultural/national identities, which in turn, affect their language ideologies and practices. Based on a thematic analysis of the interviews conducted with parents in three families, it was found that, having left Afghanistan at a young age with no hope to return to as well as their forced stays in different countries, Afghan parents have not developed a strong Afghan national identity. This embodied experience was entangled with painful emotions as well that resulted in the parents’ desire for their children to develop strong attachment to Norway and a Norwegian identity. Yet, parents’ wish does not seem to readily realize because the racial differences become an important marker of identity for the children as they grow up and enter the society, leading them to seek their roots. The study contributes to our better understanding of the complexities and nuances of transnational populations’ language ideologies and practices as well as identification and integration processes into the host society.","PeriodicalId":46781,"journal":{"name":"Language Policy","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136113296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language PolicyPub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09676-1
Katharine Glanbock
{"title":"Kashif Raza, Christine Coombe, & Dudley Reynolds (eds.): policy development in TESOL and multilingualism—past, present and the way forward","authors":"Katharine Glanbock","doi":"10.1007/s10993-023-09676-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-023-09676-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46781,"journal":{"name":"Language Policy","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136112847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Language PolicyPub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09675-2
Alejandro Dayán-Fernández
{"title":"Williams, C. H. (2023). Language policy and the new speaker challenge: hiding in plain sight. Cambridge University Press","authors":"Alejandro Dayán-Fernández","doi":"10.1007/s10993-023-09675-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-023-09675-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46781,"journal":{"name":"Language Policy","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135094325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}