Language ideology (also referred to as linguistic ideology, language ideologies, and ideologies of language) is a concept used primarily within the fields of anthropology, sociolinguistics, and cross-cultural studies to characterize any set of beliefs or feelings about languages as used in their social worlds. When recognized and explored, language ideologies expose connections between the beliefs speakers have about language and the larger social and cultural systems they are a part of, illustrating how these beliefs are informed by and rooted in such systems. By doing so, language ideologies link the implicit as well as explicit assumptions people have about a language or language in general to their social experience and political as well as economic interests.
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... Four overarching language ideologies motivate decision making in language planning ... of a society, irrespective of his native language, should learn and use the dominant language of the society in which he lives ... Linguistic assimilation stands in direct contrast to the second ideology, linguistic pluralism - the recognition and support of multiple languages within one society ...
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And my language is plain—
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And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar:
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