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标题：International Journal of Society, Culture & Language
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作者：Mohamed Fathi Ahmed Othman
期刊名称：International Journal of Society, Culture & Language
电子版ISSN：2329-2210
出版年度：2020
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：92-110
语种：English
出版社：Lulu Press, USA
摘要：This paper investigates service provisions in community languages offered by Manchester City Council and agencies working alongside to find out whether there is an explicit language policy in Manchester, how such a policy is formulated, how it functions, and how it is reflected in education. Data was collected through interviews with different personnel in MCC, focus group discussions with community language speakers, and the websites of various government agencies. The results show that there is an implicit rather than explicit language policy in Manchester. There exists also a language hierarchy in Manchester’s language policy whereby some community languages are given precedence over others, depending on the numerical strength of speakers. The results also show that there is usually a sort of articulation between the micro and macro-levels of language policy in multilingual contexts, which is evident in Manchester, particularly in the role that supplementary schools play in filling the gap in teaching community languages in mainstream schools.