[lg policy] ERIC bibliog. item: Is Public Discourse about Language Policy Really Public Discourse about Immigration? A Corpus-Based Study

[Harold Schiffman]

EJ859983 - Is Public Discourse about Language Policy Really Public
Discourse about Immigration? A Corpus-Based Study

ERIC #:EJ859983
Title: Is Public Discourse about Language Policy Really Public
Discourse about Immigration? A Corpus-Based Study
Authors: Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Shannon

Publisher: Springer. 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013. Tel:
800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-348-4505; e-mail:
service-ny at springer.com; Web site: http://www.springerlink.com
Publication Date: 2009-11-00
Pages: 26

Abstract:

. The pluralist narrative of language policies suggests that language
policies are influenced by public perceptions of immigrants (Darder
2004; Gonzalez 2000; Pavlenko 2002; Valdes 1997). This paper
investigates the relationship between newspaper discourse about
language policies and newspaper discourse about immigration. It asks
how much key, lexical overlap exists between the discourses. This
study compared Arizona newspaper corpora representing discourse about
language policies and discourse about immigration to evaluate the
degree of similarity in discourses. Keyword analysis, identifying
unusually frequent words, was used to assess the degree of important
semantic overlap across topic-based corpora. Four topic-based corpora
were constructed from the newspapers published between January 1999
and October 2007. Surprisingly, little key, lexical overlap was found
between language policy corpora and immigration corpora. In light of
the findings, advantages and limitations of various methodologies for
language policy questions are discussed--corpus-based methods in
particular.

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