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8 - Resisting Language Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2024

Kristof Savski
Kristof Savski
Affiliation:
Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
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The focus of this chapter is on how language policies are resisted. The chapter begins by articulating in a theoretical and practical way what resistance to language policy looks like, particularly from a discursive point of view. It concludes with a case study of resistance to language policy in an online forum for non-local teachers of English in Thailand, highlighting the entanglements between resistance to limits on what ‘named languages’ could be used and a broader struggle to overcome a hegemonic racial ideology around the concept of ‘native speaker’.

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Language policy resistancedialogicalitypolyphonyheteroglossiapoints of strugglesocial medianative speakertranslanguagingborderingbelonging
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Language Policy in Action , pp. 150 - 171
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Resisting Language Policies
  • Kristof Savski, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
  • Book: Language Policy in Action
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009385138.008
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  • Resisting Language Policies
  • Kristof Savski, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
  • Book: Language Policy in Action
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009385138.008
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  • Resisting Language Policies
  • Kristof Savski, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
  • Book: Language Policy in Action
  • Online publication: 05 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009385138.008
Available formats
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