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By: Josu Amezaga

Josu Amezaga — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 03:46:00 +0000

Excellent briefing of my presentation. It addresses the very core points I wanted to remark. And very interesting issue at the end of your post: the challenge to the languages posed not by immigration but for emigration. Certainly as you said my point of view is from Europe (host to immigrants), and you enrich it by observing the reality from the Philippines. Thank you for that.

By: ALEXANDRA GREY

ALEXANDRA GREY — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 04:01:00 +0000

I’m one of the Macquarie sociolinguistics students and I wish I could be at Macquarie for this lecture (but I’ll be in China.) Interestingly, although minority languages may be defined as those excluded from the nation state (above), in (PRC) China dozens minority language are officially included in how the state is constituted and closely tied to the defined place their speakers have as diverse ethnic minorities formally constituting the nation. Other language varieties in China are excluded from the state system and thus perhaps fit more clearly into the class of minoritized languages this blog is referring to. Nevertheless, for the officially included “minority languages”, the reduced minoritization of being formally included does not necessarily mean all the other forms of minoritization are mitigated in policy or in practice, especially in marketized China, as my thesis examines (available on this website under PhD Theses).