Language ideology
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Language ideology (also referred to as linguistic ideology) is a concept used primarily within the fields of anthropology (especially linguistic anthropology), sociolinguistics, and cross-cultural studies to characterize any set of beliefs or feelings about languages as used in their social worlds. When recognized and explored, language ideologies expose connections between the beliefs speakers have about language and the larger social and cultural systems they are a part of, illustrating how these beliefs are informed by and rooted in such systems. By doing so, language ideologies link the implicit as well as explicit assumptions people have about a language or language in general to their social experience and political as well as economic interests. Language ideologies are conceptualizations about languages, speakers, and discursive practices. Like other kinds of ideologies, language ideologies are influenced by political and moral interests and are shaped in a cultural setting.
See also
- English-only movement
- Finvenkismo
- Ideology
- Language planning
- Language policy
- Language politics
- Language revitalization
- Revival of the Hebrew language
- Linguistic anthropology
- Linguistic profiling
- Linguistic purism
- Linguistic rights
- Metapragmatics
- Prestige (sociolinguistics)
- Raciolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Standard language
- Perceptual dialectology
