Anthony J Liddicoat
Biographic Data
| ID | 659232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony J Liddicoat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony J |
| FAMILY NAME | Liddicoat |
| SIGNATURE | LIDDICOAT A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2139-8471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 312 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Between heritage and the here-and-now: Bangladeshi children’s multilingual ideologies in the UK
This study explores the language ideologies of children aged 5–13 years from Bangla-speaking immigrant families in the United Kingdom (UK). While prior studies in the area of family language policy (FLP) have focused primarily on parental ideologies, this study deals with children's perspectives to examine how they understand and use the multilingual resources in their repertoires – Bangla, English, Arabic, and school-based foreign languages. Dra…
Language Planning in Religious Observance
The relationships between language and religion are complex and diverse and the area of religious observance is only one of the issues where language and religion intersect. It is, however, a significant intersection as language is the main vehicle through which communal religious observance is conducted.
Towards a plurilingual curriculum: Fostering pluricultural communication in the digital age
In the context of globalisation and internationalisation of higher education, which is accelerated by digital technologies, language learners and users are increasingly confronted with a diversity ...
A living curriculum for language education: Towards a plurilingual and intercultural orientation
This article discusses the characteristics and entailments of curricula developed for the learning of languages within a plurilingual and intercultural orientation. The article takes the view that curriculum is a means for realising policies that involve processes of language curricularisation, which is informed by theoretical and ideological mechanisms, policies, contexts, and traditions, and core programme elements, which interact to shape prax…
Australian applied linguistics: Its distinctive contribution from an international perspective
As a general feature, applied linguistics work in Australia has been characterized by a strong focus on multilingualism. This focus reflects the way the discipline was formed in Australia, growing out of an intersection of in multilingualism, language policy, and language education, which has given work in Australia a different profile from applied linguistics in many other places in the world, where English and foreign language teaching was the …
The impact of socioeconomic status on parental agency in family language policy for English language learning in China
This study investigates how Chinese parents of different socioeconomic status (SES) exercise their agency in family language policies (FLP) for English language learning amid educational reforms and sociocultural dynamics. Drawing on Spolsky’s (2004) language policy framework and Bourdieu’s (2018) concept of capital, this study analysed 40 interviews with parents from different regions of China. The findings reveal that parents’ ideologies, manag…
The globalization of English and the Turkic-speaking countries of the Former Soviet Union: Attitudes, Policy and Implementation
Article The globalization of English and the Turkic-speaking countries of the Former Soviet Union: attitudes, policy and implementation was published on July 1, 2025 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2025, issue 294)
Intercultural Pragmatics
Intercultural pragmatics examines how language is used in communication between people who speak different first languages and who have been enculturated into different cultural contexts, but who are communicating in a common language, which may or may not be the first language of some of the participants. In such communication, participants draw on both existing pragmatic norms but also co‐construct new processes and understandings to achieve mu…
Reflections on language learning and social practice for language minority students
This paper tests whether visual nudges help direct attention towards existing instructions designed to increase waste sorting accuracy. The study was conducted in a quasi-experimental setting over a period of 9 weeks in two buildings of a large UK university campus. Two treatments on recycling behaviour were tested against a control group: one considered the impact of visual nudges in the form of human eyes; the other one combined human eye with …
Teacher education for diversity: Afterword
This final contribution offers an overview of issues that arise in the earlier papers. It makes a commentary on what has been established about teacher education for diversity in Anglophone countries, by considering three themes that emerge from a reading of the papers collectively: policy as the context for teacher education for diversity, what it means to be a teacher in diversity, and how diversity can be conceptualised in educational contexts
Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond: Evolving Concepts, Perspectives and Practices
Language planning for diversity in foreign language education
Studies in language policy and planning (LPP) for the teaching and learning of foreign languages have been under-represented in LPP scholarship. This under-representation is especially the case for studies of policy and planning for foreign languages other than English outside the English-speaking world. Foreign language education in much of the world has become synonymous with the teaching and learning of English, with other languages having at …
Changing Practice in University English Language Teaching: The Influence of the Chronotope on Teachers’ Action
This study aims to investigate how time is coordinated with the professional space of the universities in western China. It examines how the situatedness of English language teachers in institutional spaces influences their understandings of and the value attributed to time and how these impact on how they make changes to their practice following participation in a professional development workshop. Using a combination of observations and intervi…
Intercultural mediation in language and culture teaching and learning and the Cefr Companion Volume
Le réseau de recherche (Research Network / ReN) « Intercultural mediation in language and culture teaching and learning / La médiation interculturelle en didactique des langues et des cultures » est un groupe de chercheurs du monde entier qui s’est officiellement formé en 2015 pour entreprendre des recherches sur la médiation d’une manière collaborative. Le ReN est né des discussions entre le groupe EA 4514 PLIDAM d’INALCO et le Research Centre f…
An Introduction to Conversation Analysis
Conversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it function
Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology is a form of social inquiry that studies the largely implicit methods that members of social groups use to create and maintain the orderliness of social action. Ethnomethodology was developed by Harold Garfinkel, with the aim of examining the orderliness and organization of social action in specific situations and reveals methods of commonsense and practical reasoning. It has been a major influence on the development of conversat…
A tribute to Robert (Bob) Boris Kaplan (1929-2020): A distinguished scholar and supportive colleague
With the passing of Robert (Bob) B. Kaplan we have lost not only a distinguished scholar in the field of Applied Linguistics but also one of the founding editors of Current Issues in Language Planning. Inspired by the idea of establishing a journal that would contribute to the field of language planning research and also showcase language planning scholarship in new ways, Bob set up our journal in 1999 in collaboration with his close colleague, t…
Agency in language planning and policy
The role of agency in language planning and policy (LPP) is a recent focus of scholarship. Interest in agency has seen new issues and contexts being given prominence in LPP research. In this introduction, we present an overview of theoretical definitions of agency and the ways it has emerged as a concept in LPP scholarship. We consider how developments in methods and approaches to LPP research have led to a greater focus on social actors and thei…
The Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia
This chapter discusses the umbrella term 'local language' will be used as this is most closely related to the terminology used in language education policies. In attempting to understand language education policy in Indonesia, it is crucial to take account of the historical, political and social context, and the ideologies at work in shaping the nation and its place in the region and the world. Language education policy in Indonesia dates back to…
Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia
Language teaching and learning as a transdisciplinary endeavour: Multilingualism and epistemological diversity
Language teaching and learning is commonly considered as a research discipline that resides within the field of ‘applied linguistics’, at least in the way the field is conceptualized by English-speaking academia. However, if we consider language teaching and learning as practice, this fit is not as neat as it at first might appear. Teaching, learning and using an additional language is complex and multifaceted; it involves languages, cultures, le…
Language education policy and practice in East and Southeast Asia
East and Southeast Asia represents a linguistically and culturally diverse region. For example, more than 700 languages are spoken in Indonesia alone. It is against this backdrop of diversity that the ten countries that comprise Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have recently signed the ASEAN Charter which, while calling for respect for the region's languages, cultures and religions also officially nominates English as ASEAN's worki…
Plurilingual education: Policies – practices – language development
Native and non-native speaker identities in interaction: Trajectories of power
In intercultural interactions in which native speakers communicate with non-native speakers there is potential for asymmetries of power to shape how interaction occurs. These inequalities are not simply the result of a difference in command of the language between interlocutors but rather they relate to the social construction and performance of the identities of each participant. Using data drawn from intercultural interactions in a range of con…
Language planning in universities: Teaching, research and administration
Micro language planning for multilingual education: Agency in local contexts
This paper overviews some of the domains of application of micro-level language planning approaches to foster multilingual education. It examines the language planning of local agents and the contexts in which their work contributes to multilingual education, either to expand or limit educational possibilities. It identifies four broad contexts of language planning activity in which local agents work: the local implementation of macro-level polic…
An Introduction to Conversation Analysis
Conversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it function
Agency in language planning and policy
The role of agency in language planning and policy (LPP) is a recent focus of scholarship. Interest in agency has seen new issues and contexts being given prominence in LPP research. In this introduction, we present an overview of theoretical definitions of agency and the ways it has emerged as a concept in LPP scholarship. We consider how developments in methods and approaches to LPP research have led to a greater focus on social actors and thei…
Language planning in universities: Teaching, research and administration
Communication as Culturally Contexted Practice: A View from Intercultural Communication
This paper explores the interrelationship between culture, language and communication and examines dimensions of the impact of culture on the act and process of communication. It will argue that instances of language use in communication (linguistic acts) are inseparable from the cultural context in which they are created and in which they are received. Culture impacts on communication at a number of levels. It constitutes a frame in which uttera…
Internationalising Japan: Nihonjinron and the Intercultural in Japanese Language-in-education Policy
Language learning is frequently justified as a vehicle for promoting intercultural communication and understanding and language-in-education policies have increasingly come to reflect this preoccupation in their rhetoric. This paper examines the ways in which concepts relating to interculturality are constructed in Japanese language policy documents. It will explore in particular the ways in which ideologies of nationalism and Japanese identity h…
Current Issues in Language Planning
(2000). Current Issues in Language Planning. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 135-144
Language planning as an element of religious practice
Language is central to the practice of religion and decisions about language use characterise the ways in which religious practice is constructed. In the religious domain, language is often viewed as having more than a communicative function and languages themselves may have the status of holy artefacts. This attribution of holiness plays a significant role in language planning for religion. This paper argues that in religious practice two basic …
Pedagogical Practice for Integrating the Intercultural in Language Teaching and Learning
Languages education is increasingly emphasising the place of the development of intercultural abilities in the teaching and learning of languages, and such requirements are now common in curriculum documents around the world. This change in emphasis has posed some challenges for the ways in which language teachers work. For some teachers, language and culture have been seen as separate areas of teaching and learning and the focus on the intercult…
Learning the culture of interpersonal relationships: Students' understandings of personal address forms in French
The French pronoun system presents a particular difficulty for English-speaking learners of French with the distinction between the second person pronouns tu and vous . In textbooks, these pronouns are typically described in terms of politeness or formality but the reality is much more complex. In addition, the pronouns interact with address terms such as first name, title + last name and title + first name, which give the system further complexi…
Language education policy and practice in East and Southeast Asia
East and Southeast Asia represents a linguistically and culturally diverse region. For example, more than 700 languages are spoken in Indonesia alone. It is against this backdrop of diversity that the ten countries that comprise Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have recently signed the ASEAN Charter which, while calling for respect for the region's languages, cultures and religions also officially nominates English as ASEAN's worki…
Multilingualism research in Anglophone contexts as a discursive construction of multilingual practice
This article investigates the presence of multilingualism as an academic practice within the field of research in multilingualism by examining the citation practices of research publishing in key English-language journals in the field. It investigates how researchers make use of material published in other languages as a component of their research writing and thus of their conceptualisation of the field of research to determine to what extent mu…
Intercultural mediation, intercultural communication and translation
The role of translator as intercultural mediator has received greater attention in translation studies since the ‘cultural turn’ of the 1990s. This paper explores the question of intercultural mediation as an activity in intercultural communication and the ways this applies to translation. It takes as its starting point the idea that mediation is fundamentally an interpretive act, through which meanings that have been created in one language are …
Students' home languages and the struggle for space in the curriculum
Although the importance of using students' home languages in education has been recognised for many years, home languages that are not official languages often struggle to find space in school curricula. This paper examines the ways that language-in-education policies influence the space available for non-official languages in the curriculum. It begins with a brief overview of the historical context that shapes how languages are understood in edu…
Sexual Identity as Linguistic Failure: Trajectories of Interaction in the Heteronormative Language Classroom
This article examines interactions from tertiary-level foreign languages classes in which students challenge the heteronormative construction of their sexual identity. These interactions are triggered by questions that potentially reference students' real-world identities but which attribute a heteronormative identity to the questions' recipients. Attempts to challenge this assigned identity establish an interactional trajectory between teacher a…
Multilingual education: The role of language ideologies and attitudes
This paper overviews issues relating to the role of ideologies and attitudes in multilingual education (MLE). It argues that ideologies and attitudes are constituent parts of the language planning process and shape the possibilities for multilingualism in educational programmes in complex ways, but most frequently work to constrain the ways that MLE is conceptualised and delivered. This consideration of the role of ideologies and attitudes provid…
Presenting a point of view: Caller's contributions to talkback radio in Australia
Language Planning for Literacy: Issues and Implications
Language planning for literacy has typically focused on models of provision of print-based literacy programmes in order to develop widespread literate capabilities in reading and writing. This paper argues that contemporary literacy planning needs to consider more than models of delivery and engage with issues related to defining the nature of literate capability and the selection of languages in which literate capabilities will be developed. It …
Feminist language planning
Feminist linguistics as the study of the representation of women and men in language dates from the middle of the 1970s when linguists began to consider the relationship between language, communica
Translation as intercultural mediation: Setting the scene
This introduction to the volume examines the concept of intercultural mediation as it applies to the work of translators. To frame the discussion, it considers what it means for a translator to mediate between languages and cultures and the ways that mediation has been used in translation studies
Pragmatics and intercultural mediation in intercultural language learning
This paper examines the role that pragmatics plays in language learners' practices of mediating between their own cultural understandings and those of the target culture. It will examine learners' experiences of cultural differences in language use and the ways in which learners develop insights into the culturally determined nature of language in use. It investigates the ways in which learners articulate their awareness of the meaningfulness of …
Language Planning and Questions of National Security: An Overview of Planning Approaches
This paper examines ways in which language planning has been used to address issues of security. It gives an overview of a range of areas of security in which government-level language planning has had a role as a way of developing a typology of language planning work in this area. It examines the nexus between language, communication and security found in language planning activities with a security focus and critiques the conceptual bases on wh…
Discourse routines in answering machine communication in Australia
Recent studies have indicated that variation between the conversational routines found in everyday conversation and technologically mediated conversation can be explained systematically by the constraints imposed by the nature of the medium. Answering machine talk represents a form of mediated conversation in which messages are recorded to facilitate communication between participants. The talk which occurs in such messages draws upon the pool of…
Language planning for diversity in foreign language education
Studies in language policy and planning (LPP) for the teaching and learning of foreign languages have been under-represented in LPP scholarship. This under-representation is especially the case for studies of policy and planning for foreign languages other than English outside the English-speaking world. Foreign language education in much of the world has become synonymous with the teaching and learning of English, with other languages having at …
Educational responses to multilingualism: An introduction
We would also like to thank Miranda Roccisano for her generous and highly professional text-editing in the preparation of the papers for this volume.Anthony J. Liddicoat, Kathleen Heugh, Timothy Jowan Curnow and Angela ScarinoResearch Centre for Languages and Cultures, School of Communication International Studies and Languages University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
Some structural features of language obsolescence in the dialect of Jersey
The Japanese language proficiency project
A Grammar of the Norman French of the Channel Islands: The Dialects of Jersey and Sark
Discourse routines in answering machine communication in Australia
Recent studies have indicated that variation between the conversational routines found in everyday conversation and technologically mediated conversation can be explained systematically by the constraints imposed by the nature of the medium. Answering machine talk represents a form of mediated conversation in which messages are recorded to facilitate communication between participants. The talk which occurs in such messages draws upon the pool of…
Presenting a point of view: Caller's contributions to talkback radio in Australia
The function of the conditional in French scientific writing
This paper examines the ways in which specific-purpose writing exploits the linguistic resources of a language, in this case French, in order to meet rhetorical and communicative needs. The paper focuses on the uses of one particular verb form, the conditional, as it is used in research articles in biology. While the conditional is not a frequently used tense in French scientific writing, after the present and passe compose it is the third most f…
Current Issues in Language Planning
Language Planning and Language Ecology: A Current Issue in Language Planning
Current Issues in Language Planning approaches issues from two broad perspectives. One perspective involves examining how language planning is carried out in particular polities and allows use to consider how each polity responds to the complexities of the language planning issues it faces. The second is to examine how particular theoretical issues in language planning are addressed in a range of different contexts. This volume is the first addre…
Current Issues in Language Planning
(2000). Current Issues in Language Planning. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 135-144
The Ecological Impact of a Dictionary
The production of a dictionary of Jersey Norman French seems to have created a perception by speakers that they did not know the language. This perception appears to be the result of the ecological change which the dictionary produced by repositioning the language from an oral habitat to a written one. Such a move produces ideologies related to authority in language which alter the ways in which an individual's own language use can be perceived. …
Language Planning and Language Revival: A Current Issue in Language Planning
Intellectualisation: A Current Issue in Language Planning
(2002). Intellectualisation: A Current Issue in Language Planning. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-4
Language Planning for Literacy: Issues and Implications
Language planning for literacy has typically focused on models of provision of print-based literacy programmes in order to develop widespread literate capabilities in reading and writing. This paper argues that contemporary literacy planning needs to consider more than models of delivery and engage with issues related to defining the nature of literate capability and the selection of languages in which literate capabilities will be developed. It …
The Conceptualisation of the Cultural Component of Language Teaching in Australian Language-in-education Policy
Culture is recognised as an important part of languages teaching in Australia and has been increasingly integrated into policy and curriculum documents and the general rhetoric of languages education. The result is that policies include statements about aspects of cultural competence. However, the nature and scope of the cultural component in languages education has not been clearly articulated in these documents and a variety of competing and co…
The projectability of turn constructional units and the role of prediction in listening
In conversation analysis, prediction, in the form of the projectability of turn constructional units, is a central feature of the ways in which talk is structured in interaction. As such, prediction is an important part of what recipients do when listening to talk in progress. This article will examine a number of instances of collaborative talk in English and French in which both participants produce similar talk at roughly the same time. It wil…
Learning the culture of interpersonal relationships: Students' understandings of personal address forms in French
The French pronoun system presents a particular difficulty for English-speaking learners of French with the distinction between the second person pronouns tu and vous . In textbooks, these pronouns are typically described in terms of politeness or formality but the reality is much more complex. In addition, the pronouns interact with address terms such as first name, title + last name and title + first name, which give the system further complexi…
Internationalising Japan: Nihonjinron and the Intercultural in Japanese Language-in-education Policy
Language learning is frequently justified as a vehicle for promoting intercultural communication and understanding and language-in-education policies have increasingly come to reflect this preoccupation in their rhetoric. This paper examines the ways in which concepts relating to interculturality are constructed in Japanese language policy documents. It will explore in particular the ways in which ideologies of nationalism and Japanese identity h…
Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field by Alison Phipps and Mike Gonzales
This book begins from a view that the teaching of modern languages at tertiary level in the UK (and in other Anglophone societies) is in a state of profound and rapidly evolving crisis. This crisis
Language Planning and Policy: Language Planning in Local Contexts
Language problems potentially exist at all levels of human activity, including the local contexts of communities and institutions. This volume examines the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world and dealing with a wide range of language planning issues.
Language Planning in Local Contexts: Agents, Contexts and Interactions
The monolingual framing of international education in Australia
The concept of international education in Australia is moving from a discourse of attracting students from other countries to one of concern with internationalising curriculum and pedagogy. This internationalisation is motivated by a reconsideration of the appropriateness of curricula to prepare students for the globalised world of work. If one examines universities’ approaches to internationalisation, however, it becomes clear that the dominant …
Engaging with diversity: The construction of policy for intercultural education in Italy 1
Italy has become a destination for immigration, and this has had an impact on the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations. In response to this changing profile, Italy has developed a series of language‐in‐education policies for meeting the needs of immigrant children. This paper traces the development of these policies and examines the ways in which the linguistic and cultural education of immigrants has been conceptualized. It tr…
Language Planning and Questions of National Security: An Overview of Planning Approaches
This paper examines ways in which language planning has been used to address issues of security. It gives an overview of a range of areas of security in which government-level language planning has had a role as a way of developing a typology of language planning work in this area. It examines the nexus between language, communication and security found in language planning activities with a security focus and critiques the conceptual bases on wh…
Pedagogical Practice for Integrating the Intercultural in Language Teaching and Learning
Languages education is increasingly emphasising the place of the development of intercultural abilities in the teaching and learning of languages, and such requirements are now common in curriculum documents around the world. This change in emphasis has posed some challenges for the ways in which language teachers work. For some teachers, language and culture have been seen as separate areas of teaching and learning and the focus on the intercult…
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