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ID137224
Title ProperCulture and language promotion in Thailand
Other Title Informationimplications for the Thai Lao minority of introducing multilingual signage
LanguageENG
AuthorDraper, John
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article examines the introduction of multilingual Thai/Thai Lao/English signage in commercial areas of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Khon Kaen University, the principal tertiary university for the 19 million citizens of Northeast Thailand, the majority of whom are of the minority ‘Thai Lao’ ethnicity, an ideological construction that is presented in some detail. This introduction of signage followed a previous study to introduce officially sanctioned multilingual direction-giving signage, including the main faculty sign, in three prominent areas of the Faculty. The survey employed a complex methodology to survey the opinions of 300 students together with observation of students and interviews with members of the faculty. The research type is therefore a mixed-methodology investigation of identity and language policy planning, cultural promotion, glocalization, Gal and Irvine’s semiotic ideology structuration process, the (urban) linguistic landscape and Bourdieu’s theories of social reality. The study found high levels of support for the signage from the student body, members of the faculty and the stallholders themselves.
`In' analytical NoteAsian Ethinicity Vol. 16, No.2; Mar 2015: p.203-234
Journal SourceAsian Ethnicity Vol: 16 No 2
Key WordsGlocalization ;  Northeast Thailand ;  Linguistic Landscape ;  Language Policy Planning ;  Cultural Promotion


 
 
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