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"What is language for us?": Community-based Anishinaabemowin language planning using TEK-nology. “语言对我们来说是什么?”:基于社区的基于tek技术的语言规划。

IF 1.6 2区文学

Language Policy Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09656-5

Paul J Meighan

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Language policy at an abortion clinic: linguistic capital and agency in treatment decision-making. 堕胎诊所的语言政策:治疗决策中的语言资本和代理。

IF 1.6 2区文学

Language Policy Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09648-5

Ella van Hest, July De Wilde, Sarah Van Hoof

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Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian-Iranian transnational family. 回顾家庭语言政策：一个印度-伊朗跨国家庭的成败叙事。

IF 1.4 2区文学

Language Policy Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10993-023-09649-4

Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi, Mona Hosseini

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The ambivalent role of Urdu and English in multilingual Pakistan: a Bourdieusian study. 乌尔都语和英语在多语言巴基斯坦的矛盾角色:一项布尔迪厄研究。

IF 1.6 2区文学

Language Policy Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10993-022-09623-6

Hina Ashraf

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Re-orienting to language users: humanizing orientations in language planning as praxis 对语言使用者的重新定位:语言规划实践中的人性化取向

IF 1.6 2区文学

Language Policy Pub Date : 2022-11-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10993-022-09645-0

Yalda M. Kaveh