Title: Language Politics in Tunisia
Subtitle: A Study of Language Ideological Debates
Series Title: Multilingual Matters
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800410879

Author(s): Fethi Helal and Joseph Lo Bianco

Hbk ISBN 9781800410879 £119.95 / US$159.95 / €144.95
EPUB ISBN 9781800410923 £30.00 / US$50.00 / €40.00
PDF ISBN 9781800410978 £30.00 / US$50.00 / €40.00

Abstract:

This book offers both an empirical examination of language ideologies and language policies in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and a detailed critical and interdisciplinary model of Language Policy and Planning (LPP). The authors present a comprehensive picture of how multiple language ideologies interact and play out as language policy against a background of political turmoil in a country with a complex history of indigenous and colonial languages. They utilise critical perspectives from Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics and add Critical Discourse Studies and a Discourse-Historical Approach to produce a model of LPP for scholars in other settings to describe and work to improve their own specific language contexts.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics