Discursive Approaches to Language Policy

Elisabeth Barakos is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Her research interests focus on language policy discourse and practice, multilingualism and language in the workplace from a critical sociolinguistic perspective.Johann W. Unger is a Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes at Lancaster University. He researches mainly in the areas of language policy and digitally mediated politics from a critical discourse studies perspective. His 2013 monograph The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language deals extensively with language policy.

• Introduction: Why are discursive approaches to language policy necessary?.- PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR DISCURSIVE APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE POLICY.- Chapter 1: Language policy and critical discourse studies: Towards a combined approach.- Chapter 2: State language policy in time and space: Meaning, transformation, recontextualisation.- Chapter 3: Language policy as metapragmatic discourse: A focus on the intersection of language policy and social identification.- PART II METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN DISCURSIVE APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE POLICY.- Chapter 4: A critical integrated approach to language policy as discursive action: Strengths, challenges and opportunities.- Chapter 5: Heteroglossic practices and language ideologies: Combining heteroglossia with critical discourse analysis to investigate digital multilingual discourses on language policies.- PART III EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS OF DISCURSIVE APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE POLICY.- Chapter 6: Eng flott Diskriminatioun?: Language andcitizenship policy in Luxembourg as experience.- Chapter 7: Luxembourgish language-in-education policy in limbo: The tension between ideologies of authenticity and anonymity.- Chapter 8: Language ideologies regarding English-medium instruction in European higher education: Insights from Flanders and Finland.- Chapter 9: On ‘promoting and demanding’ integration: A discursive case study of immigrant language policy in Basel.- Chapter 10: English language policy as ideology in multilingual Khorog, Tajikistan.- Chapter 11: Commentary.

“The volume provides strong foundational knowledge for graduate students and researchers working in the field of LPP, and I recommend it to those seeking to develop an interdisciplinary lens that brings together the fields of sociolinguistics, language policy, and (critical) discourse studies.” (Pramod K. Sah, Language Policy, Vol. 18, 2019)