The Sociolinguistics of Higher Education

The Sociolinguistics of Higher Education

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  • Author: Josep Soler
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3030166775
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 134

This book investigates the sociolinguistic dimension of the internationalisation of higher education, examining the linguistic tensions and ambiguities experienced by universities around the world, particularly in non-anglophone contexts. Joining current debates within discursive and ethnographic approaches to language policy, the authors analyse the narrative emerging from university language policy documents, and then trace the stance-taking processes of different stakeholders at a small university in Catalonia. They pay particular attention to how teachers, administrative staff, and exchange students position themselves in connection to the role of Catalan and its coexistence with other languages at the university. This book will be of interest to language policy scholars and practitioners, as well as graduate students in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics


The Languaging of Higher Education in the Global South

The Languaging of Higher Education in the Global South

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  • Author: Sinfree Makoni
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000527212
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 263

By foregrounding language practices in educational settings, this timely volume offers a postcolonial critique of the languaging of higher education and considers how Southern epistemologies can be used to further the decolonization of post-secondary education in the Global South. Offering a range of contributions from diverse and minoritized scholars based in countries including South Africa, Rwanda, Sudan, Qatar, Turkey, Portugal, Sweden, India, and Brazil, The Languaging of Higher Education in the Global South problematizes the use of language in various areas of higher education. Chapters demonstrate both subtle and explicit ways in which the language of pedagogy, scholarship, policy, and partcipiation endorse and privelege Western constructs and knowledge production, and utilize Southern theories and epistemologies to offer an alternative way forward – practice and research which applies and promotes Southern epistemologies and local knowledges. The volume confronts issues including integrationism, epistemic solidarity, language policy and ideology, multilingualism, and the increasing use of technology in institutions of higher education. This innovative book will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of higher education, applied linguistics, and multicultural education. Those with an interest in the decolonization of education and language will find the book of particular use.


Linguistic Discrimination in US Higher Education

Linguistic Discrimination in US Higher Education

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  • Author: Gaillynn Clements
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000317757
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 191

This volume examines different forms of language and dialect discrimination on U.S. college campuses, where relevant protections in K-12 schools and the workplace are absent. Real-world case studies at intersections with class, race, gender, and ability explore pedagogical and social manifestations and long-term impacts of this prejudice between and among students, faculty, and administrators. With chapters by experts including Walt Wolfram and Christina Higgins, this book will be useful for students in courses in language & power and language variety, among others; researchers in sociolinguistics, education, identity studies, and justice & equity studies; and diversity officers looking to understand and combat this bias.


Language Policy in Higher Education

Language Policy in Higher Education

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  • Author: F. Xavier Vila Moreno
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783092777
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 175

In today's increasingly interconnected, knowledge-based world, language policy in higher education is rapidly becoming a crucial area for all societies aiming to play a part in the global economy. The challenge is double faceted: how can universities retain their crucial role of creating the intellectual elites who are indispensable for the running of national affairs and, at the same time, prepare their best-educated citizens for competition in a global market? To what extent is English really pushing other languages out of the academic environment? Drawing on the experience of several medium-sized language communities, this volume provides the reader with some important insights into how language policies can be successfully implemented. The different sociolinguistic contexts under scrutiny offer an invaluable comparative standpoint to understand what position can – or could – be occupied by each language at the level of higher education.


Introducing Language and Society

Introducing Language and Society

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  • Author: Rodney H. Jones
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108498922
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 259

An accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.


Transcultural Interaction and Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education

Transcultural Interaction and Linguistic Diversity in Higher Education

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  • Author: A. Fabricius
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137397470
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 331

This book presents research that seeks to understand students' experiences of transnational mobility and transcultural interaction in the context of educational settings confronted with linguistic diversity.


Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities

Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities

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  • Author: Josep Soler
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 1501505890
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

Many universities around the world are actively engaged in the process of the internationalization of their higher education systems, trying to become more competitive in all possible respects, especially in the areas of research and teaching. Language, naturally, plays a central role in this process, but this is not always explicitly recognized as such. As a result, key sociolinguistic challenges emerge for both individuals and groups of people. Most prominently, the question of whether English constitutes an opportunity or a threat to other national languages in academic domains is a controversial one and remains unresolved. The analysis featured in this book aims at addressing this question by looking at language policy developments in the context of Estonian higher education. Adopting a discourse approach, the book emphasises the centrality of language not only as a site of struggle, but as a tool and a resource that agents in a give field utilize to orient themselves in certain positions. The book will be of interest to language policy scholars, linguistic anthropologists, and critical sociolinguists. Education scholars interested in discourse studies will also find it useful.


The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing

The Sociolinguistics of Academic Publishing

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  • Author: Linus Salö
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319589407
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 141

This book presents a sociolinguistics of academic publishing from an historical and contemporary perspective. Using Swedish academia as a case study, it focuses on publishing practices within history and psychology. The author demonstrates how new regimes of research evaluation and performance-based funding are impinging on university life. His central argument, following the French sociologist Bourdieu, is that the trend towards publishing in English should be understood as a social strategy, developed in response to such transformations. Thought-provoking and challenging, this book will interest students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language planning and language policy, research policy, sociology of science, history and psychology.


Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education

Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education

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  • Author: Nick Pilcher
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9783030817268
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This book is about supporting students in Higher Education using language, and specifically using a combination of written text based linguistic approaches alongside and with other non-text related languages. The authors call this a beyond-text subject based approach and argue that this can more effectively help students. The book first outlines and describes a ‘paradigm of linguistics’ that sees support as being only possible through linguistics written text approaches. It then describes how the authors have found through their own research studies that such approaches do not go far enough to best support students. They offer alternatives and justify them theoretically and empirically, and also suggest ways in which others can use similar approaches to best support students in HE. This book will be of interest to practitioners, students, teachers and researchers in the fields of Applied Linguistics, TESOL, English Medium Instruction (EMI), EAP and language education policy.


Academic Irregularities

Academic Irregularities

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  • Author: Liz Morrish
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317201817
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

This volume serves as a critical examination of the discourses at play in the higher education system and the ways in which these discourses underpin the transmission of neoliberal values in 21st century universities. Situated within a Critical Discourse Analysis-based framework, the book also draws upon other linguistic approaches, including corpus linguistics and appraisal analysis, to unpack the construction and development of the management style known as managerialism, emergent in the 1990s US and UK higher education systems, and the social dynamics and power relations embedded within the discourses at the heart of managerialism in today’s universities. Each chapter introduces a particular aspect of neoliberal discourse in higher education and uses these multiple linguistic approaches to analyze linguistic data in two case studies and demonstrate these principles at work. This multi-layered systematic linguistic framework allows for a nuanced exploration of neoliberal institutional discourse and its implications for academic labor, offering a critique of the managerial system in higher education but also a larger voice for alternative discursive narratives within the academic community. This important work is a key resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, sociology, business and management studies, education, and cultural studies.