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Seals, Corinne A.; Beliaeva, Natalia – Language Policy, 2023
The current article applies interactional sociolinguistic discourse analysis to interviews with three parents of Ukrainian families living in New Zealand to further complexify what we know about Family Language Policy (FLP) and language transmission. More specifically, this article theorizes what we call "Aspirational FLP"--when the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Language Usage, Native Language
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Ferguson, Jenanne; Sidorova, Lena – Language Policy, 2018
Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia's Far Eastern Federal District, was often described in 19th and early 20th century accounts as being unique in the Russian Empire in that it was not a solely "Russian" city; rather, it was a Sakha (Yakut) place. Its population, Russian and Sakha alike, were conversant in the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language Planning, Russian, Language Usage
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Muth, Sebastian – Language Policy, 2018
It is the aim of this paper to examine the management of multilingualism in the Swiss healthcare industry and the negotiation of the oftentimes fluctuating and unstable value of linguistic resources in the care for medical tourists; on the other hand highlighting how international healthcare and medical tourism emerge as sites emblematic of the…
Descriptors: Russian, Commercialization, Hospitals, Tourism
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Schuster, Michal; Elroy, Irit; Elmakais, Ido – Language Policy, 2017
Hospital signage is a critical element in the patients' and visitors understanding of directions, instructions and warnings in the facility. In multilingual environments organizations need to make sure that the information is accessible in the languages of the people who consume their services. As part of a large-scale study that examined the…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Signs, Navigation, Multilingualism