Attitudes to bilingual education in Slovenia

Lukanovič, Sonja Novak; Limon, David

doi:10.1080/14664208.2014.927092

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“…Finally, some scholars have investigated attitudes towards majority vs. minority languages in multilingual contexts (e.g. Hoare 2000 on Breton; Pritchard 2004 on Irish; Novak-Lukanovič & Limon 2014 on Italian and Hungarian in Slovenia). As immigration is closely related to the emergence of multilingual communities, some scholars also compare the attitudes of ‘local’ vs. immigrant people.…”

Section: Research On Public Discourses On Multilingualismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public discourses on multilingualism in the UK: Triangulating a corpus study with a sociolinguistic attitude survey

Jaworska

Themistocleous

2017

Lang. Soc.

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This article investigates public discourses of multilingualism in Britain. In contrast to previous research focusing on specific languages or varieties of language, we examine multilingualism as a metalinguistic construct and are interested in what is frequently said about multilingualism, and how it is said. More specifically, we explore the extent to which media discourses are consonant or diverge from the attitudes of lay people. Media discourses are investigated using a corpus-assisted discourse-study approach to the analysis of large-press corpora. Results from the corpus study are then incorporated in an attitude survey distributed to 200 participants living in a large superdiverse town in Britain. Our study shows that while positive media discourses are mostly shared by the general public, some of the negative themes, especially those relating to immigration, are either reinforced or challenged. The article demonstrates the usefulness of triangulating corpus-linguistic methods with a survey to provide a more comprehensive understanding of public discourses about language matters, and offers some implications for promoting multilingualism in society. (Multilingualism, metalanguage, corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS), attitude survey, triangulation)

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Section: Research On Public Discourses On Multilingualismmentioning

confidence: 99%