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Integration Or Assimilation? A Comparative Intertextual Analysis Of Language Policy In Madrid And Catalonia, Farah Ali, Carol Ready
Integration Or Assimilation? A Comparative Intertextual Analysis Of Language Policy In Madrid And Catalonia, Farah Ali, Carol Ready
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Language policy forms an integral part of constructing, upholding, and contesting the status and social space of languages. Such policies may perpetuate social inequalities between speakers of different languages in multilingual societies (Tollefson, 1991; Van Dijk, 1993; Escobar Alméciga, 2013; Ready, 2018). Policies that typically address society as a whole may also reference language use of migrant populations. The current study analyzes integration policies in Spain at the federal and regional levels in the autonomous communities of Madrid and Catalonia, and examines how these policies shape and characterize the role of language practices as they relate to immigrants’ participation in …