A Meeting of Concepts and Praxis: Multilingualism, Language Policy and the Dominant Language Constellation

Abstract

This chapter combines discussion of multilingualism and language policy, with the productive power of the Dominant Language Constellation concept. Multilingualism research has flourished and deepened in recent years, producing many analytically revealing and empirically robust accounts of the super-diverse communicative environment of our world. This body of multilingualism studies makes available to educators, public officials and ordinary citizens, as well as scholars, the lived realities of multiple languages and their presence in the everyday lives of citizens. In public policy settings however, multilingualism studies have had far less traction. This chapter pursues a line of questionin..