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Discursive Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning

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Discourse and Education

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This chapter examines language policy and planning (LPP) scholarship that takes a discursive perspective on its object of study, either examining LPP as language-in-use (policy texts, talk about policy, and language practices, themselves) or as normative discourses or as both. This growing body of work using discourse analytic conceptual and methodological tools to analyze LPP brings focus upon the nature of language policy itself, on the locations and actors of LPP and relations among them, and on the roles of structure and agency in policy activity.

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  1. Division of Bilingual Education, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, College of Education, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 West University Ave, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA

    Katherine S. Mortimer

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  1. Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

    Stanton Wortham

  2. Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

    Deoksoon Kim

  3. Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Stephen May

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Mortimer, K.S. (2017). Discursive Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning. In: Wortham, S., Kim, D., May, S. (eds) Discourse and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02243-7_23

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