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Language and Ideologies
Language and Ideologies
Definition
- The study of language ideologies pertains
to all languages and language users.
- May (2001) explains, it is not the sole
province of those attentive principally to
minority languages, but rather an
approach to investigation that can
illuminate analysis of all languages, all
communicative interactions and all
circumstances of formal and informal
language learning and teaching.
Conceptual foundations
Woolard and Schieffelin emphasized
that such ideologies deserved
scholarly scrutiny because they
simultaneously reflect and constitute
links of language to group and
personal identity, to aesthetics, to
morality, and to epistemology.