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This book offers both an empirical examination of language ideologies and language policies in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and a detailed critical and interdisciplinary model of Language Policy and Planning (LPP). The authors present a comprehensive picture of how multiple language ideologies interact and play out as language policy against a background of political turmoil in a country with a complex history of indigenous and colonial languages. They utilise critical perspectives from Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics and add Critical Discourse Studies and a Discourse-Historical Approach to produce a model of LPP for scholars in other settings to describe and work to improve their own specific language contexts.
Helal and Lo Bianco provide a powerful analysis of language ideologies underlying Tunisia’s policy struggles associated with the Arab Spring. Beyond its immediate context, this book also makes a major methodological contribution to the field of language policy analysis. It is a must read for scholars and serious students alike.
Fethi Helal is Head of the Department of English at the University of Manouba, Tunisia. He had previously taught in Saudi Arabia and served as chair of the English Department at Umm Al-Qura University-Al-Lith University College - Makkah. His research interests include language policy and planning, sociolinguistics, intercultural academic rhetoric and discourse and critical discourse analysis.
Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor Emeritus of language and literacy education, University of Melbourne, Australia and Vice President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published widely on language policy and planning across a wide range of geographical and language contexts.
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Acknowledgements
Ruth Wodak: Foreword
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Language Ideologies and Language Policies
Chapter 3. Concepts and Theories of Language Policy and Planning
Chapter 4. Arabisation and Islamisation: Towards a Decolonial Ontology and Epistemology
Chapter 5. In Defence of Francophonie
Chapter 6. Can the Vernacular Be Planned?
Chapter 7. The Pragmatists
Chapter 8. Prospects and Proposals
Mohamed Daoud: Afterword
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