Conceived as the act of aligning with the moral imperative to enhance one’s worth in the world through a strategic management of language-related resources (De Costa et al. in Asia Pac Educ Res 25(5–6):695–702, 2016), linguistic entrepreneurship is used as a framework to guide this paper that examines the growing influence of neoliberalism within the broader ecology of second and foreign language education policy. To illustrate its influence, we focus on organizations that are under intense pressure to improve the linguistic capabilities of their members. In particular, the paper expands on the notion of affective regime to show an increasingly pervasive audit culture that has resulted in some languages and identities being assigned greater value over others. By foregrounding these inequity concerns which arise from quantitative technologies that emphasize standards and measurements, we extend the affective turn in language policy scholarship and demonstrate how it contributes to the growing body of language policy research that has critiqued the commodification of language education. We close with a call for a critical engagement with the ideological mechanisms that underlie language education policy so that our resistance towards neoliberalism can focus on undoing their effects.

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作为情感机制的语言创业：组织、审计文化和第二/外语教育政策

被认为是通过对语言相关资源的战略管理来提高自己在世界上的价值的道德义务的行为（De Costa 等人在 Asia Pac Educ Res 25(5–6):695–702, 2016） ，语言创业被用作指导本文的框架，该论文考察了新自由主义在第二语言和外语教育政策的更广泛生态中日益增长的影响。为了说明它的影响，我们关注那些承受巨大压力的组织，以提高其成员的语言能力。特别是，本文扩展了情感机制的概念，以展示日益普遍的审计文化导致某些语言和身份被赋予比其他语言和身份更高的价值。通过突出强调标准和测量的定量技术引起的这些不公平问题，我们扩展了语言政策学术的情感转向，并展示了它如何为不断增长的语言政策研究做出贡献，这些研究批评了语言教育的商品化。最后，我们呼吁批判性地参与语言教育政策背后的意识形态机制，以便我们对新自由主义的抵制可以专注于消除其影响。