Ideological Conceptualizations of Language

Discourses of Linguistic Diversity

• Author(s): Erzsébet Barát, Jiří Nekvapil, Patrick Studer,
• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Pages: 283
• ISBN_10: 3653035147
  ISBN_13: 9783653035148
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics , Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Philosophy / Language , Political Science / General , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy ,

Description:... This book presents cutting-edge research into the complex interrelationships between linguistic diversity and ideology. It provides insight into how institutions and individual stakeholders carry ideologies forward into the discursive space through policies, propaganda or individual perceptions and reflections. The chapters focus on different European localities (UK, Central Europe, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Italy), social actors (migrant communities, citizens, and policy-makers), and institutional contexts such as public bodies (European, national) and private enterprises. Understanding ideology as a social act of conceptualization, the book contributes to the growing interdisciplinary body of linguistic research into the social theory of meaning and change.