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Publication details [#51711]

Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Shannon. 2009. Is public discourse about language policy really public discourse about immigration? A corpus-based study. Language Policy 8 (4) : 377–402.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | immigrant | language policy | newspaper report | overlapping talk

Place, Publisher

Springer

Annotation

As this analysis of key, lexical overlap between language policy and immigration discourses in four Arizona newspaper corpora (with articles published from 1999 to 2007), shows no significant semantic overlap, the usefulness of corpus-based methods for language policy questions is discussed.