{"product_id":"individual-language-policy-bilingual-youth-in-vietnam-9781800411135","title":"Individual Language Policy: Bilingual Youth in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores \u003cem\u003eindividual language policy\u003c\/em\u003e among bilingual youth who belong to different ethnic minority groups in Vietnam, through vivid stories detailing their life with multiple languages. It examines the youth’s daily language behaviours through the unique theoretical lens of individual language policy, and the ways in which this policy interacts with and is influenced by language policies at macro, meso and micro level. It contributes to research on language and identity, and language policy in non-Anglophone societies and will appeal to a broad international readership, including researchers in sociolinguistics, teachers working with ethnic minority students and policymakers concerned with minority language maintenance around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fascinating book Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen analyses how Vietnamese Indigenous bilingual youth, in the face of discouragement, creatively deploy various language strategies. These are highly innovative and admirable, but they also constitute an individual language policy. In this respect and because of the excellence of the research, this volume constitutes a significant conceptual advance in language policy studies. * Joseph Lo Bianco, Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne, Australia *\u003cbr\u003eTrang Thi Thuy Nguyen’s innovative study of individual language policy in Vietnam is a pleasure to read and a welcome contribution to the field. With this book she has cemented her standing among a small cadre of experts studying Vietnamese language policy and planning. The in depth examination of the experiences of ethnically and linguistically minoritized youth provides an important lesson for us all. * David Cassels Johnson, University of Iowa, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis book makes an important and valuable contribution to the field, broaching how minority youth in Vietnam manage competing goals: the maintenance of a minority language and the acquisition of a majority language.  A multidimensional analysis is offered of how an individual's language policy is practiced, perceived and negotiated in the multiple spaces of daily life. * Patricia Lamarre, University of Montreal, Canada *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrang’s research monograph can be regarded as a pioneering attempt to launch a new dimension of language policy research—to examine how individuals’ language ideologies and practices can impact language policy development and implementation [...] It presents a compelling argument for the need to understand individuals’\u003cbr\u003e desire to construct their own identities as a driving force underlying their efforts to adopt particular language ideologies and manage their language practices.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Shuyun Zheng, Quanzhou Medical College, China and Xuesong (Andy) Gao, University of New South Wales, Australia * Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[This book] is a pioneer work on top-bottom language policy that explores Individual Language Policy (ILP) among indigenous Vietnam bilingual youths [...] the content and structure of this book are commendable, especially with highlighting vivid examples of individual language practices and the importance of these language practices for their identity. Additionally, taking a bottom-up approach to language policy is vital because it helps to understand the personal struggle and identity tensions, which will eventually help in language policy at other levels, from family to school, state, and nation.\u003c\/p\u003e * Yetunde S. Alabede, Michigan State University, USA, Journal of Language, Identity \u0026amp; Education, 2023 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword. Bernard Spolsky\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Individual Language Policy: An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Conceptualisation of Individual Language Policy          \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 3. External Forces on Bilingual Youth      \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Practised Language Policy      \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Perceived Language Policy     \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Negotiated Language Policy  \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Individual Language Policy: Identification, Contextualisation and Interaction Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTranscription Convention            \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReferences         \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Multilingual Matters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042711830871,"sku":"9781800411135","price":80.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800411135.jpg?v=1750955297","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/individual-language-policy-bilingual-youth-in-vietnam-9781800411135","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}