scholarly journals An Economics Approach to Language Policy and Linguistic Justice

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bengt-Arne Wickström ◽  
Torsten Templin ◽  
Michele Gazzola
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Linguistic Justice

scholarly journals Multilingualism and Social Inclusion in Scotland: Language Options and Ligatures of the “1+2 Language Approach”

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Argyro Kanaki
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Heritage Languages ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Multilingual Communication ◽  
Linguistic Justice ◽  
Scottish Government ◽  
Regional Languages

Recent global trends in migration, trade and overall mobility have continued to transform our objective realities and subjective experiences around linguistic diversity. More broadly, in many countries, the politics of multilingualism seem to have changed the old links between language and nation-state. In this context, Scotland is studied in this article as a case study as it acts to dispel the myth of a ‘monolingual country.’ Its recent language policy, the “1+2 Language Approach” (Scottish Government, 2012b), including regional languages, modern foreign languages and heritage languages of migrants have created opportunities as well as imbalances and issues of equity in the Scottish language habitus. Drawing on Kraus’s work (2018), this article demonstrates how the policy creates language as ‘options’ and as ‘ligatures.’ However, these ‘options’ and ‘ligatures’ are not salient and straightforward. The policy is explored on three different levels: (1) on its potential for allowing the development of multilingual communication strategies such as intercomprehension, code-switching and mixing, (2) on its commitment to linguistic justice avoiding language hierarchies and (3) on its links with dominating, neoliberal approaches to education and the economy. The article finally concludes that options and ligatures visible in language policy impose some semantic order on the confusion of layered co-occurrences of various hegemonies, or the general strain between macro and micro distinction.

scholarly journals An Economics Approach to Language Policy and Linguistic Justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bengt-Arne Wickström ◽  
Torsten Templin ◽  
Michele Gazzola
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Linguistic Justice

Testing for linguistic injustice: territoriality and pluralism

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 1034-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helder De Schutter
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Language Recognition ◽  
Linguistic Justice ◽  
Policy Measures

This article develops a linguistic injustice test. Language policy measures passing the test conflict with the normative ideal of equal language recognition. The first part of the test checks for external restrictions - language policies that grant more recognition to one language group than to another. The second part of the test checks for internal restrictions - language policies that grant more recognition to some members of a language group than to other members of the same group. The article then applies the linguistic injustice test to two models of linguistic justice: linguistic territoriality and linguistic pluralism. It is argued that real-life cases of linguistic territoriality tend to pass the test. It is argued that instantiations of linguistic pluralism tend to fail the test.

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