Although language can always be analyzed as a commodity, its salience as a resource with
exchange value has increased with the growing importance of language in the globalized …

This chapter focusses on some of the ways in which historically emerging conditions shape
both how we think about language and what we do with it. The premise behind the title of the …

In the introduction to this special issue on Sociolinguistics and Tourism, we focus on
language in tourism as an important window into contemporary forms of economic, political …

Kieli-ideologiat ovat kieltä, sen käyttämistä ja käyttäjiä koskevia diskursiivisia määritelmiä ja
kuvauksia. Vaikka kieli-ideologiat ovat juurtuneet historiallisiin käyttöyhteyksiin, ne ovat …

In this paper, I examine how language policy acts as a means of both empowering the
Welsh language and the minority language worker and as a means of exerting power over …

More than forty years since it first appeared, it is interesting to speculate about how Labov's
(1972) department store study would be reviewed, received, and perhaps framed in a …

This chapter offers a framework for combining critical language policy with critical discourse
studies (CDS) to analyse language policy as a process in the context of minority language …

Language boundaries and categories are a classical sociolinguistic issue in accounts of
linguistic diversity and change. However, the status of boundaries and categories is called …

Most research concerned with the representations of hosts in tourism discourse points to the
prevalence of stereotypical images of local people asserting that contemporary tourism …

Abstract Language commodification refers to processes by which language is constructed
as an element that can be brought into a process of economic exchange or accountability …