Choi, Lee Jin
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Multilingua
While quality English language education is not equally accessible in many EFL countries, neoliberalism and its ideology of language as a neutral skill that everyone can acquire has obscured inequalities caused by the heavy emphasis on English as a dominant world language. Using South Korea as an example, I examine how individuals, especially young...
Göransson, David
Denna uppsats, ”Ungdomar tycker, talar och känner om en språklig variation – En kvalitativ fokusgruppsstudie om attityder till och benämningar för migrationsrelaterad språklig variation”, har som syfte att undersöka olika attityder till migrationsrelaterad språklig variation bland ungdomar i Värmland. Samt att kartlägga vad den språkliga variation ...
Eliaso Magnusson, Josefina
Based on three separate studies, this thesis explores diaspora identities among young adult Assyrians/Syrians in Sweden, mediated through language. The focus is on how multilingual young adults use their languages and reflect on their use of language. The young adults’ experiences of, and perceptions of, languages are studied in two different socio...
Campos Bandrés, Iris Orosia Tabernero Sala, Rosa
A pesar de que en el curso 2017/2018 se cumplieron dos décadas de la entrada del aragonés en la escuela, todavía son escasos los datos sobre su situación y perspectivas de futuro en el ámbito educativo. Con el fin de realizar una aportación en este sentido, desarrollamos un estudio de caso múltiple bajo metodología cualitativa, centrado en el análi...
Fuller Medina, Nicté
The current paper focusses on Spanish (de facto second official language) in contact with English (official language) and Belize Kriol (considered to be a lingua franca). These three languages are numerically the majority languages in Belize and, as a consequence, are an important axis of study for multilingualism. Previous quantitative analysis of...
Bax, Anna
This dissertation focuses on a setting that is characterized by a markedly high level of linguistic diversity among related languages: a relatively recently settled immigrant community in Ventura County, California, in which over three dozen mutually intelligible varieties of Mixtec (Otomanguean) are in regular contact with one another, as well as ...
Attaallah, Israa Maher
This study investigates how Levantine Arabic-speaking immigrant parents´ language ideologies, i.e how they think and feel regarding heritage language maintenance, and language policies influence heritage language maintenance or loss for their children. This overarching topic is explored by examining the following questions; (1) What do parents thin...
Paugh, Amy L. Riley, Kathleen C.
From the “verbal deprivation” and “restricted codes” of the 1960s to contemporary “language gap” discourses, deficit models of children's language have been posited to explain social ills ranging from school failure to intergenerational poverty. However, researchers from a range of disciplines have problematized such models on the basis of the powe...
Slavec, Nastja
The Irish language is the national and first official language of the Republic of Ireland, yet only a dwindling minority of the population speaks it. After centuries of language shift to English, today Irish has solely a symbolic value as an element of Irish national identity. This master’s thesis is based on ethnographic research in the Gaeltacht ...
Léglise, Isabelle Migge, Bettina
On the French Guiana-Suriname border, a hybrid space, members of the same population groups engage in circular mobility but little is known about the practices of these transnational communities. We explore how traditional emic social distinctions, modern states' language ideologies and emerging discourses in the urban context shape Maroon's practi...
