Journal article
Chinese Language Policy and Uyghur Youth: Examining Language Policies and Language Ideologies
Journal of language, identity, and education, Vol.20(3), pp.183-196
05/04/2021
DOI: 10.1080/15348458.2020.1753193
Abstract
This article examines the connections between educational language policy for Uyghur youth and the language ideologies among Uyghur families. Chinese language policy has historically accommodated multilingualism, and promoted minoritized language education; however, we reveal how policies have shifted towards favoring and promoting Putonghua (only) as the lingua franca. We then present interview data collected from four Uyghur youth attending university, all of whom are the targets of Uyghur language policy in China. In many ways, Chinese language policy has had the desired effect on these students. We provide a historical overview of educational language policy in China, with a focus on its impact on Uyghur speakers, and then illuminate how language attitudes and ideologies circulate through official policy texts, among families, and among students.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Chinese Language Policy and Uyghur Youth: Examining Language Policies and Language Ideologies
- Creators
- Yawen Han - southeast UniversityDavid Cassels Johnson - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of language, identity, and education, Vol.20(3), pp.183-196
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/15348458.2020.1753193
- ISSN
- 1534-8458
- eISSN
- 1532-7701
- Grant note
- name: The Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, award: 18YYB007; name: Southeast University Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, award: 2242019S20042
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/04/2021
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984285649402771
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