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van Hest, Ella; De Wilde, July; Van Hoof, Sarah – Language Policy, 2023
This paper investigates an abortion clinic's procedural choices regarding the management of linguistic diversity. It focuses in particular on how language serves as capital for clients' agency in decision-making regarding their abortion treatment. Based on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in a Flemish abortion clinic, we analyse the clinic's…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Pregnancy, Clinics, Language Attitudes
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Van Hoof, Sarah – Language Policy, 2018
In the globalized economy, old metadiscursive regimes have been challenged by new conditions which are often considered to be more favourable to heteroglossic practices. In Flemish Belgium, the liberalization of the TV market is said to have transformed the broadcaster VRT from a public service aiming at educating viewers into a competitive…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Television, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries