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Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

Essays in Honour of Sjaak Kroon

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Editors:
  1. Massimiliano Spotti

    1. Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  2. Jos Swanenberg

    1. Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  3. Jan Blommaert

    1. Tilburg, The Netherlands

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  • Provides an integrated ethnographic approach to the study of language policy
  • Includes a geographical spread of case studies avoiding a Euro-centric perspective
  • Outlines the longitudinally development of a field

Part of the book series: Language Policy (LAPO, volume 28)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction to Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

    • Jos Swanenberg, Massimiliano Spotti, Jan Blommaert
    Pages 1-5

  3. Sociolinguistic Restratification in the Online-Offline Nexus: Trump’s Viral Errors

    • Jan Blommaert
    Pages 7-24

  4. L2 Learning While Doing Togetherness on YouTube: Exploring the Role of a Socio-technological Platform in an Asylum-Seeking Center

    • Massimiliano Spotti
    Pages 25-37

  5. Colonial and Missionary Contributions in Tigrinya Reading Instruction in Eritrea

    • Yonas Mesfun Asfaha, Jeanne Kurvers
    Pages 39-55

  6. The Cuban Literacy Programme in Timor-Leste; ‘Magic’ on the Blackboard

    • Danielle Boon, Jeanne Kurvers
    Pages 57-76

  7. Assessing Multilingualism at School

    • Guus Extra, Ton Vallen
    Pages 77-83

  8. Creating Quarter for Doing Things with Language

    • Koen Jaspaert
    Pages 85-106

  9. Teachers-in-Training and the Policing of Language Variation

    • Jos Swanenberg, Anne Kerkhoff, Petra Poelmans
    Pages 107-125

  10. Preach or Practise? Preach and Practice!

    • Johan Van Hoorde
    Pages 127-143

  11. The Kroonian Paradigm: Sjaak Kroon’s Distinctive Style of Language Work

    • Joseph Lo Bianco
    Pages 145-159
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About this book

This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education and the development of policies at all levels and across the globe in this sometimes over-policed field. It particularly focuses on language policy analysis in which both the top-down institutional and the bottom-up ethnographic dimensions are blended, and in which globalization is the main macro-perspective. The chapters describe sensitive tools for investigating, unravelling and understanding the grey space connecting formal language policies to informal politics and practices of language on the ground.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Massimiliano Spotti, Jos Swanenberg

  • Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jan Blommaert

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Sjaak Kroon

  • Editors: Massimiliano Spotti, Jos Swanenberg, Jan Blommaert

  • Series Title: Language Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88723-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88722-3Published: 15 February 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88725-4Published: 16 February 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88723-0Published: 03 April 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1571-5361

  • Series E-ISSN: 2452-1027

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 159

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Language Policy and Planning, Language Education

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