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Bres, Julia de and Luc Belling. 2015. Free Your Stuff Luxembourg! Language policies, practices and ideologies in a multilingual Facebook group. Language Policy 14 (4) : 357–375.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Springer

Annotation

This study addresses the dynamic link between language policies, practices and ideologies in the ‘Free Your Stuff Luxembourg’ multilingual Facebook group, generated to ease gratis consumer good exchange between members settled in Luxembourg. It tracks language policy evolution in a group easing interaction between people of various nationalities in an officially trilingual country. A shift from mainly English language practices to an equilibrium between English and Luxembourgish, and lastly a Luxembourgish supremacy are observed.