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Introduction / Christopher Stroud -- Language rights and linguistic citizenship. Linguistic citizenship / Christopher Stroud -- Essentialism and language rights / Lionel Wee -- Commentary. unanswered questions: addressing the inequalities of majoritarian language policies / Stephen May -- Educating for linguistic citizenship. Affirming linguistic rights, fostering linguistic citizenship: a Cameroonian perspective / Blasius A. Chiatoh -- Education and citizenship in Mozambique: colonial and postcolonial perspectives / Feliciano Chimbutane -- Paths to multilingualism? reflections on developments in language-in-education policy and practice in East Timor / Estevæo Cabral and Marilyn Martin-Jones -- Language rights and "thainess": community-based bilingual education is the key / Suwilai Premsrirat and Paul Bruthiaux -- Commentary. linguistic citizenship: who decides whose languages, ideologies and vocabulary matter? / Kathleen Heugh -- Linguistic citizenship in resistance and participation. Citizenship theory and fieldwork practice in Sri Lanka Malay communities / Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim -- Linguistic citizenship in Sweden: resistance in a context of linguistic human rights / Tommaso M. Milani and Rickard Jonsson -- Linguistic citizenship in post-Banda Malawi: a focus on the public radio and primary education / Gregory Kamwendo -- Making and shaping participatory spaces: resemiotization and citizenship agency in South Africa / Caroline Kerfoot -- Commentary. on participation and resistance / Ana Deumert

The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such conditions call for a new critique of global English, one that is sensitive to both the political economic conditions of globalization and speakers' local practices. Linking Bourdieu's theory of the linguistic market and his practice-based perspective with recent advances in sociolinguistics

English is deeply embedded within recent neoliberal projects of social reformation in South Korea, becoming a central topic of contention in the controversial educational reforms of the Lee Myung-bak regime (2008-2012). It figured prominently in various changes to the Korean education system pursued by the Lee administration under the name of greater competitiveness, such as increasing English immersion instruction in public schools and opening greater number of special purpose high schools where English language skills are highlighted. Lee's policies on the one hand aimed to cater to middle-c

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Chineseness as Competing Discourses -- 2. Chineseness in Diaspora: Multilingualism, Heteroglossia and Fluid Ethnicity -- 3. When 'Chineseness' is Not Preferred: Accounts of Academically Elite Students from China in Singapore's Schools -- 4. Joseonjok YouTubers: Translating Vernacular Chineseness in South Korea -- 5. Framing Chineseness and Indonesianness on the Periphery -- 6. Narrating the Future Self: Strategic Stylisation and Cosmopolitan Stancetaking in Chinese IELTS Preparation Classes -- 7. Coffee, Social Space and Middle-Class Romance: Customer Writings in an Independent Coffee Shop in China -- 8. The Authenticity, Cultural Authority and Credibility of Weibo Public Intellectuals -- 9. 'Foreigners' in One's Own Land: Analysing Touristic Representations of Chineseness in the New York Times -- 10. Commentary -- Index

This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of linguistic citizenship. Each chapter illuminates how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency