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Individual Language Policy

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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 resea...
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  • 12 April 2022
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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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Price: $139.95
Pages: 129
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Publication Date: 12 April 2022
Trim Size: 9.20 X 6.15 in
ISBN: 9781800411135
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Bilingualism and multilingualism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality
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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.

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.

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

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