This thesis investigates how ordinary language users enact language policy and thus negotiate (standard) language ideology in mundane, online interaction. The language policy work is found in metalinguistic discussions on various social media. The discussions have been triggered by deviations from standard written language, mostly on the level of o...
Exploring social effects of differentiation between “native and non-native” varieties of English, the presented study followed six Anglophone trainees in a transnational unit of an EU institution situated in Luxembourg. Data were gathered qualitatively in 2018-19, combining on-site observations, longitudinal-, and one-off interviews. The interviewi...
The aim of this study is to investigate how heads of schools perceive multilingualism as a resource for learning and to what extent the process of writing and implementing language policies has provided a support for developing a multilingual view on languages in schools. This is done in accordance with the multilingual turn, which states that alth...
Published in International Journal of the Sociology of Language
This article explores language ideologies and sociolinguistic scales from the perspective of decolonization. Coloniality is a multi-scalar world system that affects micro-level interactions in multiple locales, both in the metropole and in the former colonies. Not only does coloniality exist on a world scale, resistance to it is scaled up too and e...
Published in International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Conventional indexicality is semiotically effective when regimented by its meta-indexical (or “metapragmatic”) interpretant, a conceptual scheme presumed upon by participants in communication that determines the categories of possibility for a relevant “here-and-now” of indexically signaled co-presence, just as, conversely, such an interpretant is ...
Published in Applied Linguistics Review
This paper investigates a group of mainland Chinese students’ multilingual learning experiences in an English-medium university in multilingual Hong Kong. Informed by the sociological construct of investment, the study focuses on the role of identity and language ideology and their interaction in shaping the participants’ experiences of learning En...
Jezikovne in jezikoslovne ideologije so kompleksen in nehomogen pojav. Oblikujejo se v odvisnosti od zgodovinskih okoliščin, med seboj so povezane, hkrati pa delujejo razmeroma samostojno in dolgotrajno. Med opaznimi jezikovnoideološkimi potezami v slovenski jezikovni skupnosti so vprašanja ločevanja med domačim in tujim, vprašanje vrednotenja govo...
This article uses reflective drawing to explore representations of multilingualism by Anglophone migrants in Luxembourg. Analysing twelve interviews in which participants drew and described their language experiences, we examine the language ideologies Anglophone migrants adopt in response to the ideologies of English they encounter. Participants a...
Published in Global Chinese
In view of theory sustaining that there is a nexus between linguistic repertoire, language and social identity, and that habitual language choice is not haphazard, this study explores the habitual use of Chinese – hence Chinese language maintenance (CHLM) – among multilingual Chinese migrant youth in Prato (Italy) to understand the social meaning e...
Based on the accounts by four elder speakers of the Swedish minority language Meänkieli, given in October 2020, this study investigates the attitudes and sentiments among elder speakers of Meänkieli towards the languages they speak. The participants have migrated as young adults from the Torne Valley, where Meänkieli is traditionally spoken, to pla...
