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The Internationalisation of Catalan Universities: Multilevel Language Policies, Circulating Discourses, and Stakeholders’ Stance-Taking

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In any given social setting, in this case the university sphere, regulating languages and assigning them specific roles and functions can potentially lead to tensions and ambiguities. In this process, those who feel such tensions and ambiguities and those who contribute to their generation are the key stakeholders involved in the context. Amidst a background of ongoing regulatory changes and policy reformulations, the preceding two chapters have unpacked a number of central points around the internationalisation of universities in Catalonia, exploring the narrative of the policy documents issued formally by Catalan public universities, and the stance taken by university teachers, university administrators, and exchange students towards language, internationalisation, and higher education in Catalonia. In this chapter we consider in detail the layered circulation of discourses from the policy documents to the primary stakeholders involved in the university context, as well as some of the practical implications of each policy actor’s stance-taking processes.

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Soler, J., Gallego-Balsà, L. (2019). The Internationalisation of Catalan Universities: Multilevel Language Policies, Circulating Discourses, and Stakeholders’ Stance-Taking. In: The Sociolinguistics of Higher Education. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16677-9_5

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