Language policy and linguistic landscaping in a contemporary blue-collar workplace in the Dutch–German borderland
Abstract This article argues that an expanded view of linguistic landscapes provides a useful metaphor for exploring language policies. Following this view, “language policy” is defined as “linguistic landscaping” (i.e., placing language policy mechanisms which, together with already placed mechanisms, construct a metaphorical landscape). The application of this landscaping metaphor has several advantages, as it provides a way to imagine language policy as a continuously ongoing construction process, and as it provides a way to imagine the historical layers of a landscape, the overlap and conn... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Language Policy ; volume 20, issue 4, page 645-666 ; ISSN 1568-4555 1573-1863 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29038716 |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10993-020-09572-y |