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Language, hospitality, and internationalisation: exploring university life with the ethical and political acts of university administrators

Current issues in language planning, 2023-01, Vol.24 (1), p.42-59 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2021 ;ISSN: 1466-4208 ;ISSN: 1747-7506 ;EISSN: 1747-7506 ;DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2021.2013061

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Title:
Language, hospitality, and internationalisation: exploring university life with the ethical and political acts of university administrators
Author: Holmes, Luke
Subjects: College Admission ; College Faculty ; Educational Policy ; English (Second Language) ; Ethics ; Ethnography ; Federal Legislation ; Foreign Countries ; Foreign Students ; higher education ; Hospitality ; International Education ; internationalisation ; Language Attitudes ; Language Minorities ; Language Planning ; language policy ; Language Usage ; Multilingualism ; Official Languages ; Policy Formation ; Political Attitudes ; Politics of Education ; School Personnel ; Second Languages ; Sociolinguistics ; Swedish ; Universities
Is Part Of: Current issues in language planning, 2023-01, Vol.24 (1), p.42-59
Description: Drawing on the ethico-political framework of hospitality, this paper investigates the communicative practices of three administrative support staff as they attempt to manage the twin challenges of working in adherence to state and institutional language policies while communicating ethically in an internationalising workplace. Academic administrative staff rarely feature in studies on internationalisation yet are crucial to understanding the complex day-to-day realities of contemporary university life. Empirically, this study reports on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, including observations, interviews, and email records. The data demonstrate language work being carried out on an ethical basis, before the consideration of any particular languages, beyond the participants' political obligations, and in excess of institutional support. The current national and institutional responses to the multilingual realities of Swedish university life, I argue, are failing to do justice to and facilitate the ethically grounded, bottom-up language policy-making as practised by this study's participants. This paper thus promises to open up debate on hospitality within language policy and planning for internationalising Higher Education, and, in its re-evaluation of the ethical and political dimensions of hospitality, it emphasises the framework's critical potential within sociolinguistic research, more generally.
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1466-4208
ISSN: 1747-7506
EISSN: 1747-7506
DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2021.2013061
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Language, hospitality, and internationalisation: exploring university life with the ethical and political acts of university administrators

2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2021 ;ISSN: 1466-4208 ;ISSN: 1747-7506 ;EISSN: 1747-7506 ;DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2021.2013061

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