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.

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