Language Policy

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Twitter threads and supervernaculars

Article
Victoria Mohr
04/12/2017
11 minutes to read

This article utilizes Blommaert's concept of the supervernacular to analyze the communicative conventions of "Twitter threads" , and how they are mutually constructed by users and the restrictions of the platform. 

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The European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in Slovakia

Academic paper
Monika Nemcová
06/10/2017
21 minutes to read

An analysis of implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Slovakia in pre-school and primary education with a focus on Hungarian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian and Romani languages.

Tatra mountains at Slovak-Polish border

The case of the Slovak minority in Poland

Academic paper
Monika Nemcová
13/02/2017
22 minutes to read

Focusing on education and the media, this article analyses Slovak as a minority language in Poland. It argues that the Polish language policy is inextricably connected to educational and national policies.

Why is character amnesia in China considered problematic?

Paper
Lisanne Nugteren
16/01/2017
23 minutes to read

In the People's Republic of China, due to rapid technological developments more and more people rely on voice messaging and pinyin input for producing texts, rather than writing them by hand.

De scheve torens van Pisa en Babel

Article
Jan Blommaert
13/12/2016
22 minutes to read

Het Vlaamse onderwijs zit al 15 jaar vast op één fout spoor in haar antwoord op de PISA-studies.

Going native: Brexit prompts linguistic cleansing

Article
Dennis Baron
24/08/2016
7 minutes to read

Brexit is generating a wave of linguistic purism.French politicians urged the EU to drop English as one of its 24 official languages, And now, a British group wants to erase French words from English passports. (Dennis Baron)

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