Search Results - "Albury, Nathan John"

Beyond economy and culture: language-in-education preferences of Malaysian youth by John Albury, Nathan

“…This paper revisits the tension in sociolinguistics between the linguistic capital associated with languages of socioeconomic mobility, and the cultural and…”
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Metadiscourse and metalinguistic talk about script choice in Serbia: chasms and consequences for criticality by Albury-Garcés, Nathan John

“…In Serbia, script diversity remains the norm whereby Serbian is routinely written in both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. This is not free of political…”
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Linguistic landscape and metalinguistic talk about societal multilingualism by Albury, Nathan John

“…Linguistic landscapes have proven to be intriguing foci of sociolinguistic research in and of themselves, given language in public spaces indexes broader…”
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Mother tongues and languaging in Malaysia: Critical linguistics under critical examination by Albury, Nathan John

“…This article brings the critical turn in linguistics—with its current scepticism towards essentialised languages and bias for languaging—under critical…”
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Multilingualism and Mobility as Collateral Results of Hegemonic Language Policy by Albury, Nathan John

“…Abstract This article shows, with Malaysia as a case study, that an ethnonationalist language policy need not have disempowering consequences for minorities…”
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Forging and negating diasporic linguistic citizenship in ethnocratic Malaysia by Albury, Nathan John

“…•Ethnic Chinese and Indians in Malaysia are deemed perpetual diasporas.•Malay hegemony sees the linguistic citizenship of non-Malays as foreign.•However,…”
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Language policy, ideological clarification and theory of mind by Albury, Nathan John

“…This interdisciplinary paper shows that investigating community language beliefs, as a pillar of language policy research, can be enriched by the principles of…”
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How folk linguistic methods can support critical sociolinguistics by Albury, Nathan John

“…•Epistemic claims about language are laden with power that structures inequalities.•Folk linguistic methods offer extra tools for critical sociolinguistic…”
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Defining Māori language revitalisation: A project in folk linguistics by Albury, Nathan John

“…The postmodern and critical movements in language policy, with their redefinition of governmentality and attention to power structures, call for localised…”
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From perceptual dialectology to perceptual multilingualism: a Hong Kong case study by Albury, Nathan John, Diaz, Max

“…This paper proposes perceptual multilingualism as a research interest within the broader folk linguistic enterprise. By drawing on the geolinguistic mapping…”
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Between public perception and government intent in national language policy by Albury, Nathan John

“…This paper analyses divergence between national language policy on the one hand, and perceptions of it on the other. In ethnocratic Malaysia, language policy…”
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Introduction: Reimagining language and belonging in the diaspora by Albury, Nathan John, Schluter, Anne Ambler

“…•Analyses of language, discourse, and semiotics provide insights into diasporic belonging.•A focus on emic perspectives allows for the contextualization of the…”
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The power of folk linguistic knowledge in language policy by Albury, Nathan John

“…Just as an expanded view of language policy now affords agency to many more actors across society than authorities and linguists alone, it also accepts that…”
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National language policy theory: exploring Spolsky’s model in the case of Iceland by Albury, Nathan John

“…Language policies are born amidst the complex interplay of social, cultural, religious and political forces. With this in mind, Bernard Spolsky theorises that…”
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Your language or ours? Inclusion and exclusion of non-indigenous majorities in Māori and Sámi language revitalization policy by Albury, Nathan John

“…Since the second half of the twentieth century, post-colonial governments have commonly sought to revitalize the indigenous languages their imperialist…”
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"If We Lose Their Language We Lose Our History": Knowledge and Disposition in Maori Language Acquisition Policy by Albury, Nathan John

“…Localising knowledge and dispositions helps to predict the likely success of top-down language policies. In so far as language acquisition is a pillar of…”
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A typology of arguments for and against bilingual place-naming in Aotearoa New Zealand by Albury, Nathan John, Carter, Lyn

“…Naming places is theorised as an activity in heritage whereby a name will index a people's narrative and history. In postcolonial societies where the colonised…”
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An old problem with new directions: Māori language revitalisation and the policy ideas of youth by Albury, Nathan John

“…Legislative changes are afoot in New Zealand that are formalising an ideological shift in policy that decreasingly positions the Māori language a matter of…”
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Collective (white) memories of Māori language loss (or not) by Albury, Nathan John

“…Language policies have a better chance of succeeding if they align with the persuasions of the polity, and this is only more pronounced in the case of…”
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Objectives at the crossroads: Critical theory and self-determination in indigenous language revitalization by Albury, Nathan John

“…Indigenous language revitalization is a popular focus of critical theorists. From the perspective of sociolinguists, critical theory interrogates language…”
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