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Abdulaziz Alshahrani – AILA Review, 2023
The aim of this paper was to evaluate gender differences in the language used in United Nations (UN) General Assembly debates by one male and one female representative each from India, China, the USA, and Indonesia. The critical discourse analysis (CDA) framework of van Dijk (2015) was used along with the 25 discursive devices in this framework.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Gender Differences, International Organizations, Language Usage
Jie Zeng; Yanling Zhao – AILA Review, 2023
This scholarly investigation delves into the metamorphosis of China's language policies across three distinct epochs spanning over two millennia, tracing from ancient China to contemporary times. Employing a sociolinguistic lens, the analysis elucidates the historical trajectories of these policies, accentuating their theoretical and pragmatic…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Planning, Minority Groups, Ethnic Groups
Wang, Xuan; Kroon, Sjaak – AILA Review, 2017
This paper examines the ways in which the ethnic minority group the Tujia in Enshi, China, engages with heritage tourism, as a complex project of designing authenticity. Authenticity is taken as part of the chronotopic phenomena of identity making: the complex interplay of multiple, nonrandom timespace frames of discourses and semiotic…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Tourism, Semiotics
Feng, Anwei – AILA Review, 2009
This paper starts with an overview of the sociolinguistic context and a series of policy documents concerning English language education promulgated recently in China. It moves on to an analysis of disparities in English language education policies practised in different regions, differences between urban and rural areas, between social classes…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Linguistics, Rural Urban Differences, Foreign Countries
Flowerdew, John – AILA Review, 2007
As a symptom of globalization and the marketization of the universities, more and more scholars, many or most, of whom use English as an additional language (EAL), are being required to published in English. This article presents some qualitative data which highlights some of the difficulties encountered by such writers. It first discusses a…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Communication (Thought Transfer), Publishing Industry, English (Second Language)