8 research outputs found
Replacing ‘THEM’ with ‘US’: Language ideologies and practices of ‘purification’ on Facebook
Get PDFLanguage Use in Past and Presen
Discursive scaling: Moral stability and neoliberal dominance in the narratives of transnational migrant women
No full textAlienated in my hometown: pro-official family language policies and identity conflict in the city of Tabriz
No full textSociological realism and language policy analysis: A way forward
No full textLanguage planning and policy has evolved from considering policy as one of states’ affairs at its early stages to how policy actors exercise their agency to appropriate and enact policy in micro and local contexts. Ethnography of language policy is predominantly used today to explore why policies are enacted in a certain way and not otherwise, shedding light on policy actors’ ideologies and their role in bringing about specific consequences. This article engages with the ethnographic approaches to language policy studies from the perspective of sociological realism. It argues that grounding ethnographic studies in realist social theory can not only accommodate recent developments in the field but also further our understanding of how policy actors’ agency is informed by factors from other strata of the society which could go unnoticed in ethnography of language policy. To illustrate, the case of policy enactment in kindergartens and preschools in Tabriz is presented
