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English Private Tutoring: The Case of Brazil
English private tutoring is a pervasive phenomenon around the globe, regardless of countries development level, cultural differences and politics....
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Tutors’ Perspectives of English Private Tuition in France: Challenges and Implications
In France, English has become the most studied international language at school and is regarded as an asset for workers. In order to stand out in the...
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Sprachliche Normen
Was „geht“im Deutschen und was nicht? Diese Frage ist kompliziert. Die offiziellen sprachlichen Normen gelten in bestimmten Kontexten, in anderen...
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Identity and the Levers of Power
The study of “voice” in writing presents a conundrum. On the one hand, we use this term to signify our ability to project an identity into a piece of...
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Heritage Language Education and Ethnolinguistic Vitality: Community Initiatives to Support Greek Learners in Canada
Heritage Language Education (HLE) is a distinct field of bilingual education that focuses on minority languages. In Canada, despite a strong...
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Chronologie
Die Chronologie beschäftigt sich mit der Lokalisierung historischer Ereignisse in der Zeit. Sie stellt also historische Ereignisse in ihrer...
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Corpus Planning
Less overtly political than status planning, corpus reform is nonetheless generally undertaken by institutions related to centralised power...
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Educational linguicism: linguistic discrimination against minority students in Vietnamese mainstream schools
This article examines linguistic discrimination against minority students in Vietnamese mainstream schools, as represented in administrators’,...
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Existing Research on Academic Careers
Professorial careers result from the conjunction of two intertwined processes: qualifications (diplomas) and jobs (contracts). Existing research...
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Moomins Take the Floor. Finnish Trolls in Contemporary Mass Social (Media) Events
Tove Jansson (1914–2001) was an outstandingly talented Finnish-Swedish artist, recognized worldwide mostly as the creator of the Moomins. Although...
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The Rise and Fall of an Editor-In-Chief: A Field-Theoretic Autoethnography
In this chapter I offer an autoethnographic description and field-theoretic interpretation of the editor-in-chief’s power position in the field of...
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Gesellschaft, Gemeinschaft und soziale Akteure
Dieses Kapitel diskutiert die für die Soziolinguistik grundlegende Frage, was Gesellschaft, soziale Gemeinschaften und soziale Akteure sind. Hierfür...
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Documentary Makers as Translators: Translating the Real to the Reel
This chapter defines the conceptual framework of the book. In order to comprehend how documentary makers transfer real-life stories to the...
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Displaying and Commodifying English on Shop Name Signs
In this chapter, we look into the language choice and uses on private or commercial signs, particularly the vogue of adopting English on shopfront...
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‘Somewhere Between Engineering and Humanities’: Discourses of Investment in Additional Language Learning Among Students of Higher Education in Finland
This chapter investigates discourses of investment in additional language learning among students of higher education in Finland. Additional...
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Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations in Language Policy and Planning: Introduction
This introductory chapter reviews the historical development of the field of Language Policy and Planning (LPP), outlines the structure of the book,...
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Chinese Parents’ Agency in Children’s English Learning in Private Tutoring: An Ecological Perspective
Previous studies on English private tutoring (EPT) have mainly focused on students and tutors who directly engaged in it. However, as EPT is a paid...
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Two Disciplines: Linguistics and Sociology
Disciplines organise academic knowledge and institutions. Professors belong to at least one discipline. They also contribute to sub-disciplinary...
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On the Normative Side of Saussure’s “Linguistic Feeling”
The text presents the articulation of the notion of “linguistic feeling” in Saussure, focusing on its normative side (distinct from the cognitive...
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Kritische und metapragmatische Soziolinguistik: Sprachliche Variation als soziales Kapital
In diesem Kapitel werden Formen der Soziolinguistik vorgestellt, die ihre theoretischen Wurzeln zwar auch schon in den 1960er Jahren haben, die aber...