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    Expat Vlogs: Bilingual Couples Share their Lives on the Internet
    with Katarzyna Buczek
    Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 68 (1): 169-182. 2023.
    As there are more and more bilingual couples who ran vlogs to share their bilingual and intercultural lives on the internet, this paper seeks to delineate the sources of motivation for these couples to disclose their privacy through vlogging. Based on the sample of selected vlogs, a qualitative analysis has been conducted to obtain the sociolinguistic picture of the bilingual couples’ motivations to attract wider audiences via the internet. The analysis of vlogs, informed by a multimodal theoret…Read more
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    Swiss Multilingualism: A Historical Background to Language Policy
    Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 59 (1): 69-84. 2019.
    Specific historical and linguistic circumstances gave way to a Swiss original concept of a multilingual state as the nation of the will. The discussion concerns problems inherent to the unity-in-diversity philosophy and the proportional representation of national languages within the framework of the Swiss constitution, including the legislation protecting language and the language principles obtaining in Switzerland. Drawing on the language ideology studies, this paper shows how the linguistic …Read more