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Language, Islamophobia and Securitization
The final chapter revisits the book’s main arguments, namely, that Muslim women are misrepresented as non-speakers of English based on the selective...
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The Politicization of Muslims in the West
This chapter provides an overview of the politicisation of Muslim identity in the West, particularly post 9/11 (Sect. 2.1), with special attention...
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The Durability of Language Ideologies
This chapter establishes some of the entry points and assumptions in beginning to think through language policy making in schools, and how policies...
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Language Policy: From Ideology to Inequality
This chapter outlines the key theoretical anchor points used throughout the book, drawing together ideas, stances and approaches from critical...
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Conclusions: Standards, Stigma, Surveillance
This final chapter brings together some of the central arguments I have made in this book and offers some suggestions for future work which commit to...
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Raciolinguistic (Re)Resistance and Building Alternative Worlds
The chapters in this book so far have explored how the crafting of historical and contemporary policy works to erase and stigmatise the language...
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Doing and Living Language Policy in Schools
The previous chapter showed how ideologies of racialised and classed language standardisation are crafted by the state and funnelled into schools via...
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Bad Behaviour, Bad Bodies, Bad Language
This chapter is largely based on data generated from time spent in a London secondary school, in which I observed lessons, spoke with teachers and...
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State-Level Mechanisms of Sonic Surveillance
This chapter maps the main contours of language education policy in post-2010 reforms, exploring how standard language and raciolinguistic ideologies...
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Online Hate Speech in the UK and Poland: A Case-Study of Online Reactions to the Killing of Arkadiusz Jóźwik
Our study focuses on online reactions to the killing of Arkadiusz Jóźwik in Harlow, Essex, in August 2016. It uses corpus-assisted Critical Discourse...
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Towards a Grammar of Islamophobia
This chapter critically investigates the contested understandings of Islamophobia that have emerged since its broader circulation in the 1990s. The...
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Teaching About Racism Within Institutional Whiteness in Germany
State institutions increasingly commit themselves to diversity issues. Talking about diversity, however, has to come along with talking about racism,...
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Tracing Language Ideologies
In this chapter, I provide an overview of the methodological approaches used to generate, organise and interpret the data which informs the remaining...
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Muslim Women and Language Ideological Debates
This chapter highlights the dominant representation of Muslim women as voiceless in the Western media and introduces how such stereotypical...
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Ten years later: What has become of FLP?
In this special issue, we focus on how family language policy (FLP) as a field of enquiry has evolved over the ten years since the publication of the...
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Narrative Construction of Power and Knowledge in the Police: Suspicion and Defining the Deviant
As a state institution with the mission to ensure internal security, the police have the power to define what social situations or people are...
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Questioning “Intercultural Opening” and “Cultural Diversity”: Discursive and Organizational Strategies of Forced Migrants’ Labor Market Integration
Currently, two organizational strategies aim to counter discrimination of refugees and migrants in the labor market: “cultural diversity” and...
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Introducing Institutionality
In this introduction we outline theoretical and methodological approaches to discursive and material dimensions of institutional practices and...
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Distributed Knowledge, Distributed Power: A Sociolinguistics of Structuration
This paper examines ways in which Cicourel’s approach to understanding the construction of socially distributed knowledge in workplaces and...
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The Failure of a Colour-Blind Approach to Mitigate the Racism of Enid Blyton’s Twentieth-Century Children’s Fiction
This paper analyses the textual and visual modifications made to Enid Blyton’s Adventure (1944–1955) series. Using Blyton’s revised books as a case...