Researching Agency in Language Policy and Planning [Hardcover]

This concise collection features seven studies on agency in language policy and planning across five different national contexts. Building on themes explored in Agency in Language Policy and Planning, this volume highlights the complex relationship between agency and broader ideological discourses, integrating social theory toward contributing to and enhancing growing scholarship on language policy and planning. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in language policy and planning, language and education, critical sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.

Introduction

1 Torn between two nation-states: Agency and power in linguistic identity negotiation in minority contexts

2 Agency in bottom-up language planning: Motives of language maintenance in the South Sudanese community of Australia

3 Challenges to nationalism in language planning: Street names in Malaysia

4 Exploring agency and language choice in Semai language maintenance

5 Agency and language-in-education policy in Vietnamese higher education

6 Mediating teacher candidate sense of agency in response to policy and curricula planning in a community-based adult English language program

7 Trans-semiotising pedal#0