Language policy in business : discourse, ideology and practice / Elisabeth Barakos.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Language, power, and political control in Wales -- Towards a discursive approach to language policy -- How to operationalise a multi-level disourse analysis -- Political and corporate language policy discourse: shifting discourses across contexts -- Language policy, ideology and practice in Welsh business: stakeholder perspectives -- Managers' local promotion of bilingualism in business -- Conclusions: taking stock of minority language policy in business.

"Language Policy in Business: Discourse, ideology and practice provides a critical sociolinguistic and discursive understanding of language policy in a minority language context. Focusing on Welsh-English bilingualism in private sector businesses in Wales, the book unpacks the circulating discourses, ideologies and practices of promoting bilingualism as a sociocultural and economic resource in the globalised knowledge economy. It sheds light on businesses as ideological sites for struggles over language revitalisation, which has been characterised by tensions and discursive shifts from essentialist ideologies about language, identity, nation and territory, to an increased commodification of bilingualism. The book is premised on the understanding that language is a focal point for articulating and living out historical power relationships and inequalities, and that language policy processes are never apolitical. It adds to a body of literature about bilingualism in minority language contexts and, more broadly, about how the fields of politics, business and society are inextricably related"-- Provided by publisher.

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