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Language Policy in Business: Discourse, Ideology and Practice

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Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Leaves
213
Series
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 89
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Language Policy in Business: Discourse, ideology and practice provides a critical sociolinguistic and discursive understanding of language policy in a minority language context. Focusing on Welsh-English bilingualism in private sector businesses in Wales, the book unpacks the circulating discourses, ideologies and practices of promoting bilingualism as a sociocultural and economic resource in the globalised knowledge economy. It sheds light on businesses as ideological sites for struggles over language revitalisation, which has been characterised by tensions and discursive shifts from essentialist ideologies about language, identity, nation and territory, to an increased commodification of bilingualism. The book is premised on the understanding that language is a focal point for articulating and living out historical power relationships and inequalities, and that language policy processes are never apolitical. It adds to a body of literature about bilingualism in minority language contexts and, more broadly, about how the fields of politics, business and society are inextricably related.

✦ Table of Contents


Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Language, power and political control in Wales
3 Towards a discursive approach to language policy
4 How to operationalise a multi-level discourse analysis
5 Political and corporate language policy discourse: Shifting discourses across contexts
6 Language policy, ideology and practice in Welsh business: Stakeholder perspectives
7 Managers’ local promotion of bilingualism in business
8 Conclusions: Taking stock of minority language policy in business
References
Appendices
Appendix A. Transcription conventions
Appendix B. Interview guide
Appendix C. Sample interview coding journal (atlas.ti)
Appendix D. Web-based questionnaire
Index


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