The Sociolinguistics of Higher Education: Language Policy and Internationalisation in Catalonia, by Josep Soler and Lídia Gallego-Balsà

Villares, Rosana (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: With internationalisation shaping the main values and strategies of modern higher education, many authors have analysed from different perspectives its rationales, main strategies, and outcomes worldwide (Maringe and Foskett 2010; Knight 2012; de Wit et al. 2015). At its core, language issues, and particularly English, have received much attention as a result of the integration of an international
dimension in the teaching, research and management functions of universities. Wisely identified in the title of this book, this situation has positioned language policy (henceforth LP) as a relevant theoretical and methodological tool that examines the relationship between local languages and English as the lingua franca for scientific communication (Spolsky 2009; Ferguson 2012; Jenkins and Mauranen 2019). While most of the leading literature in the European context tends to look at the situation in the northern countries (Haberland and Mortensen 2012; Risager 2012; Ljosland 2014; Soler-Carbonell et al. 2017), the present book focuses on the south-western context, choosing the Catalonian context as a
case study. By focusing on a particular university, the authors can analyse in depth the institution’s sociolinguistic context from a top-down and bottom-up approach that examines the linguistic tensions experienced by stakeholders.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20205145

Año: 2021

Publicado en: Miscelánea (Zaragoza) 61 (2021), 137-143
ISSN: 1137-6368

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 0.1 - Social Sciences (Q4)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.101 - Literature and Literary Theory (Q3) - Cultural Studies (Q3)

Tipo y forma: (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)