This book explores individual language policy among bilingual youth who belong to different ethnic minority groups in Vietnam, through vivid stories detailing their life with multiple languages. It examines the youth’s daily language behaviours through the unique theoretical lens of individual language policy, and the ways in which this policy interacts with and is influenced by language policies at macro, meso and micro level. It contributes to research on language and identity, and language policy in non-Anglophone societies and will appeal to a broad international readership, including researchers in sociolinguistics, teachers working with ethnic minority students and policymakers concerned with minority language maintenance around the world.
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This book explores individual language policy among bilingual youth who belong to different ethnic minority groups in Vietnam, as reflected in their daily language behaviours. Contributing to research on language and identity, and language policy in non-Anglophone contexts, it will appeal to those working in sociolinguistics and related areas.
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Foreword. Bernard Spolsky Chapter 1. Individual Language Policy: An Introduction Chapter 2. Conceptualisation of Individual Language Policy           Chapter 3. External Forces on Bilingual Youth       Chapter 4. Practised Language Policy       Chapter 5. Perceived Language Policy      Chapter 6. Negotiated Language Policy   Chapter 7. Individual Language Policy: Identification, Contextualisation and Interaction Perspectives Transcription Convention             References          Index
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In this fascinating book Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen analyses how Vietnamese Indigenous bilingual youth, in the face of discouragement, creatively deploy various language strategies. These are highly innovative and admirable, but they also constitute an individual language policy. In this respect and because of the excellence of the research, this volume constitutes a significant conceptual advance in language policy studies.
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Uses the unique theoretical lens of individual language policy

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781800411135
Publisert
2022-04-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Multilingual Matters
Vekt
380 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
144

Biographical note

Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen works at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on language and identity, language policy, language and social justice, language and intercultural communication, multilingualism and minority education.