make a distinction between linguistic assimilation as a language ideology and a language policy
Answers
Answer:
Language ideology (also referred to as linguistic ideology) is a concept used primarily within the fields of anthropology (especially linguistic anthropology), sociolinguistics, and cross-cultural studies to characterize any set of beliefs or feelings about languages as used in their social worlds.
Answer:
plz mark me brainlest
Explanation:
Ideology is defined by van Dijk (1998: 8) as “the shared framework(s) of social beliefs that organize and coordinate the social interpretations and practices of groups and their members.” All groups and societies have ideologies; as Silverstein (1992: 315) notes: “[T]here is no possible absolutely pre-ideological, i.e., zero-order, social semiotic.” When frameworks of social beliefs are widely shared in societies, or by groups in society, they tend to be viewed as natural, normal, and commonsense, while alternative frameworks that run counter to widely shared beliefs tend to be viewed as deviant, abnormal, and irrational. For example, many readers of this chapter will find the assertion that named languages (as opposed to language) are constructs and that “there is no natural fixed structure to language” to be contrary to their “commonsense” beliefs about language, beliefs that are based on their socialization into particular speech communities and, especially, as a result of many years of formal schooling in which they learned about the “rules” of language, “parts of speech,” “good grammar,” and so on. In fact, for many people born and raised in monolingual homes and educated in monolingual schools, it is not at all surprising that they would consider multilingual competence, language mixing and codeswitching, hybridity, and bidialectalism as “different,” even “abnormal,” perhaps “uneducated,” and possibly incompatible with modernity and upward socioeconomic mobility. As we will see, there