Language Politics in Tunisia

A Study of Language Ideological Debates

AvFethi Helal,Joseph Lo Bianco

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-11
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:720 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Multilingual Matters
Antal sidor:362
Förlag:Multilingual Matters
ISBN:9781800410879

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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.

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Helal and Lo Bianco provide a powerful analysis of language ideologies underlying Tunisia’s policy struggles associated with the Arab Spring. Beyond its immediate context, this book also makes a major methodological contribution to the field of language policy analysis. It is a must read for scholars and serious students alike.

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Table of FiguresGlossaryAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsRuth Wodak: ForewordChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Language Ideologies and Language PoliciesChapter 3. Concepts and Theories of Language Policy and PlanningChapter 4. Arabisation and Islamisation: Towards a Decolonial Ontology and EpistemologyChapter 5. In Defence of FrancophonieChapter 6. Can the Vernacular Be Planned?Chapter 7. The PragmatistsChapter 8. Prospects and ProposalsMohamed Daoud: AfterwordTranscription Conventions