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Discursive mechanisms and human agency in language policy formation : negotiating bilingualism and parallel language use at a Swedish university

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

In the wake of the enactment of Sweden’s Language Act in 2009 and in the face of the growing presence of English, Swedish universities have been called upon by the Swedish Higher Education Authority to craft their own language policy documents. This article focuses on the discursive negotiation of institutional bilingualism by a language policy committee at one Swedish university during the process of developing a draft language policy. Following an ethnographic/discourse analytic orientation to language policy and planning research, data were collected during language policy committee meetings at the university. Using nexus analysis, circulating discourses are mapped and analyzed, with a specific focus on how these discourses were negotiated through mediated actions during committee meeting interacton and then entextualized in a draft policy. Analysis reveals how ‘bilingualism’ became reinterpreted as ‘parallel language use’, a concept developed and used in Nordic language planning over the past 15 years. Analysis further shows how committee members negotiated the meaning of parallel language use and the processes of resemiotization that took place as discourses from other sociolinguistic scales entered into the committee’s discussion and writing. In all, the study highlights discursive mechanisms of language planning and the interplay of social actors and texts.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1-17

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Volym

19

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Languages and Literature

Nyckelord

  • bilingualism
  • language planning
  • language policy
  • parallel language use
  • higher education
  • Sweden

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Skapandet av en språkpolicy
  • Language Policy Development

Forskningsgrupp

  • Language Acquisition
  • Language, Cognition and Discourse@Lund (LCD@L)

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1367-0050