Standardizing Minority Languages

TL;DR: In this article, a general review and comparative analysis of the theory and practices of the "turnaround to people" in the language policy in Russia and Western Europe is presented, while comparing the "grassroots" actors of respective language policies, the social and political context of their activities, and the linguistic ideologies behind them.

TL;DR: Based on an ethnography of a language policy in the region of Apurimac in the Peruvian Andes, the authors analyzed the boundaries that are constructed by a community of practice of Quechua experts.

TL;DR: The authors discuss the history of multilingual writing research and examine the research presented in the issue in light of three cross-cutting themes: visuality, materiality, and creativity, and conclude with a summary of the papers and the insights they add to our understanding of shifting multilingual literacy practices in the twenty-first century.

TL;DR: In this paper , the decolonial importance of geographical engagement with the materiality of language as an embodied and embedded relation is emphasised, through considering Italian philosopher Adriana Cavarero's analysis of Western modernity's systematic devocalisation of logos from a modernity/coloniality perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, the idea of provincializing Europe and the Narration of Modernity is discussed, with a focus on postcoloniality and the artifice of history, and the two histories of capital and domestic cruelty.

TL;DR: The concept of indexical order is introduced in this article to analyze how semiotic agents access macro-sociological plane categories and concepts as values in the indexable realm of the micro-contextual.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation, the theory of necessity, the doctrine of necessity of necessity in public amateurs, secret bureaucrats, and the principle of large numbers.