Abstract The present article examines the importance of language attitudes and ideologies for studying motivation to learn minority languages by adults. In contemporary globalised world, proficiency not only in English, but also other languages, is necessary order communicate internationally find employment. These may be ‘major’ state such as French or Spanish. However, many linguistically dive...

This paper examines the relationships between language and ideology and how ideology is constructed and presented via different language choices in English editorials published in different socio-cultural contexts. Van Dijk’s (2000a) ideological square in terms of representation of the self and other was applied to the editorials. Through a comparative analysis of Iranian, Turkish and Saudi Ara...

language like other inventions was originated to serve human needs in different civilization. different language was created later. contextually the importance of translation from one language to another is not only to understand words; as the words are not the elements of translation. importance and base of translation lies in context to understand it. after getting the content, one should d...

Social media provides a unique platform enabling public discourse around cross-cutting ideologies. In this paper, we provide a methodological lens for studying the discourses around the controversial topic of abortion on social media. Drawing from the theoretical framework of “Critical Discourse Analysis”, we study discourse around abortion on Twitter through analysis of language and the manife...

Catalonia is an interesting site for language ideology research several reasons. It a multilingual and multicultural territory, where both Catalan Spanish enjoy the status of co-official language. Adding to this, over course last two decades there has been growing movement that called independence from Spain, one which frequently places linguistic concerns at its centre. Against this backdrop, ...

this paper examines the relationships between language and ideology and how ideology is constructed and presented via different language choices in english editorials published in different socio-cultural contexts. van dijk’s (2000a) ideological square in terms of representation of the self and other was applied to the editorials. through a comparative analysis of iranian, turkish and saudi ara...