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This chapter examines language policy and planning (LPP) scholarship that takes a discursive perspective on its object of study, either examining LPP as language-in-use (policy texts, talk about policy, and language practices, themselves) or as normative discourses or as both. This growing body of work using discourse analytic conceptual and methodological tools to analyze LPP brings focus upon the nature of language policy itself, on the locations and actors of LPP and relations among them, and on the roles of structure and agency in policy activity.
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Mortimer, K.S. (2016). Discursive Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning. In: Wortham, S., Kim, D., May, S. (eds) Discourse and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02322-9_23-1
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