Language Politics in Tunisia

A Study of Language Ideological Debates
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80041-087-9
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 752 g

This book offers both an empirical examination of language ideologies and language policies in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and a detailed critical and interdisciplinary model of Language Policy and Planning (LPP). The authors present a comprehensive picture of how multiple language ideologies interact and play out as language policy against a background of political turmoil in a country with a complex history of indigenous and colonial languages. They utilise critical perspectives from Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics and add Critical Discourse Studies and a Discourse-Historical Approach to produce a model of LPP for scholars in other settings to describe and work to improve their own specific language contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Helal, Fethi

Lo Bianco, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Figures

Glossary

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Ruth Wodak: Foreword

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Language Ideologies and Language Policies

Chapter 3. Concepts and Theories of Language Policy and Planning

Chapter 4. Arabisation and Islamisation: Towards a Decolonial Ontology and Epistemology

Chapter 5. In Defence of Francophonie

Chapter 6. Can the Vernacular Be Planned?

Chapter 7. The Pragmatists

Chapter 8. Prospects and Proposals

Mohamed Daoud: Afterword

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Über Autor(innen)

Helal, Fethi
Fethi Helal is Head of the Department of English, University of Manouba, Tunisia. His research interests include language policy and planning and critical discourse analysis.

Lo Bianco, Joseph
Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor Emeritus of language and literacy education, University of Melbourne, Australia and Vice President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published widely on language policy and planning across a wide range of geographical and language contexts.

Fethi Helal is Head of the Department of English at the University of Manouba, Tunisia. He had previously taught in Saudi Arabia and served as chair of the English Department at Umm Al-Qura University-Al-Lith University College - Makkah. His research interests include language policy and planning, sociolinguistics, intercultural academic rhetoric and discourse and critical discourse analysis.

Joseph Lo Bianco is Professor Emeritus of language and literacy education, University of Melbourne, Australia and Vice President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published widely on language policy and planning across a wide range of geographical and language contexts.