{"title":"Review of Salomone (2022): The rise of English: Global politics and the power of language","authors":"Jane Setter","doi":"10.1075/lplp.00100.set","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00100.set","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47468907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Wright & Higgins (2021): Diversifying Family Language Policy","authors":"Angie Baily, X. Curdt-Christiansen","doi":"10.1075/lplp.00099.bai","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00099.bai","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41825148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Faingold (2020): Language Rights and the Law in the European Union","authors":"Zhonghua Wu, Le Cheng","doi":"10.1075/lplp.00101.wu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00101.wu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42448805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kadija Bouyzourn, Rachel Macreadie, Shuxia Zhou, Reine Meylaerts, A. Pym
In 2020–22, multilingual vaccination communication became an urgent priority around the world, requiring trusted communication in non-official languages. In Brussels, Melbourne and Shanghai, quite different legal frameworks and language policies were challenged by the need for behavior-change communication in a wide range of culturally and linguistically diverse communities. In all three cases, practices were developed that showed the limitations of existing translation policies. Here we use policy analysis to explore the nature of those challenges, to compare the different solutions found in the three cities, and to propose how policies might be developed and adjusted to enhance time-pressured trust-building communication.
{"title":"Translation policies in times of a pandemic","authors":"Kadija Bouyzourn, Rachel Macreadie, Shuxia Zhou, Reine Meylaerts, A. Pym","doi":"10.1075/lplp.22053.bou","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.22053.bou","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In 2020–22, multilingual vaccination communication became an urgent priority around the world, requiring trusted communication in non-official languages. In Brussels, Melbourne and Shanghai, quite different legal frameworks and language policies were challenged by the need for behavior-change communication in a wide range of culturally and linguistically diverse communities. In all three cases, practices were developed that showed the limitations of existing translation policies. Here we use policy analysis to explore the nature of those challenges, to compare the different solutions found in the three cities, and to propose how policies might be developed and adjusted to enhance time-pressured trust-building communication.","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46704046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Barandovská-Frank (2020): Interlingvistiko. Enkonduko en la sciencon pri planlingvoj","authors":"Klaus Schubert","doi":"10.1075/lplp.00098.sch","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00098.sch","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46866668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Students belonging to the substantial Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel – about one-fifth of the population – are required to study Hebrew as a second language (SL). This study analyzes the policy of teaching Hebrew as SL through content analysis of policy papers, questionnaires and interviews with teachers. It aims to elicit the meaning of studying the majority language by the minority in practical and ethnonational identity terms. The findings indicate that the current policy aims at promoting the acquisition of spoken Hebrew for the purpose of integration in higher education and the labor market, and that international contents are more prominent as part of the growing openness in Palestinian society in Israel. In terms of identity, the importance of Hebrew in that society has grown, but also posed challenges in terms of the minority’s sense of belonging to Israel and identification with the values attendant on acquiring the language. Overall, we identified interfaces between three identity spheres: the Palestinian ethnonational identity, the Jewish-Israeli identity as encountered through Hebrew language studies, and the global identity as represented by educational and employment opportunities and values.
{"title":"Teaching Hebrew as second language in Arab schools in Israel","authors":"Rama Manor, Adi Binhas","doi":"10.1075/lplp.22002.man","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.22002.man","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Students belonging to the substantial Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel – about one-fifth of the population –\u0000 are required to study Hebrew as a second language (SL). This study analyzes the policy of teaching Hebrew as SL through content\u0000 analysis of policy papers, questionnaires and interviews with teachers. It aims to elicit the meaning of studying the majority\u0000 language by the minority in practical and ethnonational identity terms. The findings indicate that the current policy aims at\u0000 promoting the acquisition of spoken Hebrew for the purpose of integration in higher education and the labor market, and that\u0000 international contents are more prominent as part of the growing openness in Palestinian society in Israel. In terms of identity,\u0000 the importance of Hebrew in that society has grown, but also posed challenges in terms of the minority’s sense of belonging to\u0000 Israel and identification with the values attendant on acquiring the language. Overall, we identified interfaces between three\u0000 identity spheres: the Palestinian ethnonational identity, the Jewish-Israeli identity as encountered through Hebrew language\u0000 studies, and the global identity as represented by educational and employment opportunities and values.","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48193251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critique de Ó Giollagáin, Camshron, Moireach, Ó Curnáin, Caimbeul, MacDonald & Péterváry (2020)","authors":"P. Foucher","doi":"10.1075/lplp.00097.fou","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00097.fou","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44662429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Ulasiuk, Hadîrcă & Romans (2018): Language Policy and Conflict Prevention","authors":"M. Zeba","doi":"10.1075/lplp.00093.zeb","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00093.zeb","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48627465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
While conflicts involving language are always intertwined with other issues such as ethnic and racial identity, religion, and democratic participation, the importance of the linguistic dimension is often underestimated, along with the difficulties of achieving effective, just and sustainable solutions through language legislation and policy. Language policies have political and social consequences; they can reinforce or diffuse conflicts and social unrest between language groups, they can accelerate language loss or facilitate language revitalization, and they can be instruments of inclusion or exclusion affecting the stability and security of the society. Against this background, this Special Issue aims to shed light on how language diversity impacts conflict and security. In particular, the SI will look at how issues revolving around language diversity interplay with security concerns and which dynamics trigger processes of securitization of language issues. How to balance language diversity to prevent conflict and promote security of linguistic majorities and minorities? How to reconcile the demands for linguistic diversity and political stability and unity? What is the role of international organizations in these processes? And how can the risk of the essentialization of linguistic communities and minority cultures leading to the division of societies into us-versus-them antagonisms thereby be overcome?
{"title":"At the intersection of language, conflict, and security","authors":"Roberta Medda-Windischer, A. Carlà","doi":"10.1075/lplp.00087.med","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00087.med","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While conflicts involving language are always intertwined with other issues such as ethnic and racial identity,\u0000 religion, and democratic participation, the importance of the linguistic dimension is often underestimated, along with the\u0000 difficulties of achieving effective, just and sustainable solutions through language legislation and policy. Language policies\u0000 have political and social consequences; they can reinforce or diffuse conflicts and social unrest between language groups, they\u0000 can accelerate language loss or facilitate language revitalization, and they can be instruments of inclusion or exclusion\u0000 affecting the stability and security of the society. Against this background, this Special Issue aims to shed light on how\u0000 language diversity impacts conflict and security. In particular, the SI will look at how issues revolving around language\u0000 diversity interplay with security concerns and which dynamics trigger processes of securitization of language issues. How to\u0000 balance language diversity to prevent conflict and promote security of linguistic majorities and minorities? How to reconcile the\u0000 demands for linguistic diversity and political stability and unity? What is the role of international organizations in these\u0000 processes? And how can the risk of the essentialization of linguistic communities and minority cultures leading to the division of\u0000 societies into us-versus-them antagonisms thereby be overcome?","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42601205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article posits a new framework in relation to language rights in post-conflict settings, giving a key position to dialogue, which we see as a multidimensional process central in most reconciliation processes. Yet this notion is seldom utilised with regard to language rights, and subsequently in language policies. Instead, powerful stakeholders such as governments or transnational organisations often consider the introduction of language rights as ‘enough’ to resolve language disputes. We discuss the impact of this in a variety of settings, arguing that a static interpretation of language rights, such as in the text of a peace agreement or a constitution, is not sufficient. The application of language rights without follow-on dialogue can antagonise rather than reconcile the very disputes they claim to settle. We argue that a more fluid consideration is required that captures the complex and changing dynamics of linguistic identities in the volatile context of a peace process. A neglected aspect in the debate on language rights in post-conflict settings is the way dialogue can, over time, alter the relationship language communities have with their own language and potentially with the language of their ‘other’. We draw on international examples that indicate dialogue should be a central consideration in post-conflict settings at all levels, from transnational organisations to governments’ national policies, and finally to grassroots initiatives within and across communities.
{"title":"When language rights are not enough","authors":"P. McDermott, Mairéad Nic Craith","doi":"10.1075/lplp.00091.mcd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00091.mcd","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article posits a new framework in relation to language rights in post-conflict settings, giving a key\u0000 position to dialogue, which we see as a multidimensional process central in most reconciliation processes. Yet this notion is\u0000 seldom utilised with regard to language rights, and subsequently in language policies. Instead, powerful stakeholders such as\u0000 governments or transnational organisations often consider the introduction of language rights as ‘enough’ to resolve language\u0000 disputes. We discuss the impact of this in a variety of settings, arguing that a static interpretation of language rights, such as\u0000 in the text of a peace agreement or a constitution, is not sufficient. The application of language rights without follow-on\u0000 dialogue can antagonise rather than reconcile the very disputes they claim to settle. We argue that a more fluid consideration is\u0000 required that captures the complex and changing dynamics of linguistic identities in the volatile context of a peace process. A\u0000 neglected aspect in the debate on language rights in post-conflict settings is the way dialogue can, over time, alter the\u0000 relationship language communities have with their own language and potentially with the language of their ‘other’. We draw on\u0000 international examples that indicate dialogue should be a central consideration in post-conflict settings at all levels, from\u0000 transnational organisations to governments’ national policies, and finally to grassroots initiatives within and across\u0000 communities.","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42062058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}