The Internationalisation of Higher Education in Two Different Contexts: Catalan and Estonian Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Autor/inn/en	Soler-Carbonell, Josep; Gallego-Balsà, Lídia
Titel	The Internationalisation of Higher Education in Two Different Contexts: Catalan and Estonian Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Quelle	In: Language, Culture and Curriculum, 29 (2016) 1, S.40-55 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0790-8318
DOI	10.1080/07908318.2016.1132656
Schlagwörter	International Education; Language Planning; Higher Education; Comparative Education; Universities; Sociolinguistics; Language Attitudes; Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Language of Instruction; Spanish; Romance Languages; Doctoral Dissertations; Finno Ugric Languages; Web Sites; Content Analysis; Strategic Planning; Language Usage; Estonia; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Internationale Erziehung; Sprachwechsel; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; University; Universität; Soziolinguistik; Sprachverhalten; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Spanisch; Romanische Sprache; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Web-Design; Inhaltsanalyse; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Sprachgebrauch; Estland; Spanien
Abstract	The topic of the internationalisation of academia has recently attracted attention from sociolinguists and language-policy scholars. In this paper, we compare two different universities from two contrasting contexts in Europe in order to find out more about their projected stance [Jaffe, A. (2009). Stance in a Corsican School: Institutional and Ideological Orders and the production of Bilingual Subjects. In A. Jaffe (Ed.), "Stance: Sociolinguistic perspectives" (pp. 119-145). New York, NY: Oxford University Press] and attitudes towards the different languages present in their immediate contexts. In particular, we compare the University of Tartu (Estonia) with the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), analysing several key parameters. The purpose of the comparison is to contrast, from a sociolinguistic point of view, the higher education setting of two medium-sized language contexts in Europe [Vila, F. X., & Bretxa, V. (Eds.). (2015). "Language policy in higher education. The case of medium-sized languages." Bristol: Multilingual Matters] with different demolinguistic and language political features. The results show that both institutions adopt a similar stance in connection to their respective national language (a protectionist attitude), but they take different approaches towards the other societal language and English. We read these differences in light of the broader historical and socio-political backgrounds, which we suggest are reflected in the microcosm of the universities here analysed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01