"Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. Mediating

The study of language ideologies has become a key theme in sociolinguistics over the past decade. It is the study of the relationship between representations of

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The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of