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How do concepts folk linguistics and language ideology relate to each other?
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Of course, language ideology and folk linguistics are not the only concepts to relate in this semantic space. There's also language politics, language policy, language education, folk etymology, etc.
They all interact in rather complex but at the same time fairly transparent ways. Some of the connections you can draw:
- Folk linguistics is an expression of language ideology
- Folk linguistics is used to achieve aims of language politics
- Language ideology underlies language policy
- Language education policy is a battleground of language ideology and politics
But, furthermore, you cannot really separate language with other markers of identity when it comes to both folk linguistics and language ideology. It is interwoven with assumptions and stereotypes about culture, race, folk psychology, human nature, etc.
I'm not aware of any comprehensive survey of research and thought that explicitly links all of these concepts in a systematic way but at the same time I'd say that any survey of language politics or even just language contact will touch on the underlying phenomena - perhaps with varying emphasis.
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