The university as a terrain for hidden language conflicts? German, English and the silence beyond them
| Autor: | Monika Dannerer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Language Management
050101 languages & linguistics Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration 050301 education language.human_language Linguistics Silence German Internationalization English as a lingua franca language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology business 0503 education Language policy media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sociolinguistica. 34:131-154 |
| ISSN: | 1865-939X 0933-1883 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/soci-2020-0009 |
| Popis: | In this paper, language policy (LP) at the University of Salzburg (Austria), a mid-size seemingly monolingual university, serves as an example to analyse (potential) language conflicts at the institutional level considering the roles played by German, English and ‘immigrant’ languages at the university. Language management, beliefs, and (reported) language use by different stakeholders in higher education (administrators, academic and administrative staff and students) are contrasted, also taking into consideration different linguistic backgrounds (German as L1, German as L2 and German as a foreign language). This offers an overall perspective on institutional LP that is still group sensitive, one that reveals two different hidden language conflicts: the non-addressed conflict between the two most important and visible languages at the university by far, German and English, as well as the neglected and negated conflict between German and the hidden “immigrant” languages. A consistent ‘internationalisation at home’ strategy would address these hidden conflicts and show backwash effects on ideas of language use in education as well as in society in general. |
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