Revisualizing Boundaries

Revisualizing Boundaries
Author: Lachman M Khubchandani
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1997-02-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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Khubchandani (Center for Communication Studies, Pune) sets out a new agenda which probes the contours of plurality consciousness in studies of language, focusing on the strengths of complementary orientations. He makes a case for moving away from the monolith of language traditions to a framework that places the boundaries of speech spectrums in a fluid transactional mode, and looks at the dynamics of language as an institution, highlighting the nonlinear characteristics of natural language. For those involved with sociolinguistics, linguistic theory, and cultural studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages

Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages
Author: Sinfree Makoni
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853599239

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This book questions assumptions about the nature of language. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, the authors argue that unless we change and reconstitute the ways in which languages are taught and conceptualized, language studies will not be able to improve the social welfare of language users.

Locating Translingualism

Locating Translingualism
Author: Jerry Won Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2022-04-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1009100106

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This book questions what culture is and what it is assumed to 'look like' in the context of globalization.

The Handbook of Dialectology

The Handbook of Dialectology
Author: Charles Boberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 620
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1118827597

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The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry

Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?

Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?
Author: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 821
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135662363

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In this powerful, multidisciplinary book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Theory is combined with a wealth of factual encyclopedic information and with many examples and vignettes. The examples come from all parts of the world and try to avoid Eurocentrism. Oriented toward theory and practice, facts and evaluations, and reflection and action, the book prompts readers to find information about the world and their local contexts, to reflect and to act. A Web site with additional resource materials to this book can be found at http://www.ruc.dk/~tovesk/

Language, Literacy and Diversity

Language, Literacy and Diversity
Author: Christopher Stroud
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136687238

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Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation to social practice; the role (and nature) of boundary maintenance or disruption in global, transnational and translocal contexts; and the lived experiences of individuals on the front lines of global, transnational and translocal processes. The contributors pay attention to the dynamics of multilingualism in located settings and the social and personal management of multilingualism in socially stratified and ethnically plural social settings. Together, they offer ground-breaking research on language practices and documentary practices as regards to access, selection, social mobility and gate-keeping processes in a range of settings across several continents: Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.

Status of Hindi in India

Status of Hindi in India
Author: Uday Kumar
Publisher: Readworthy
Total Pages: 182
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9350181495

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Language Policy and Linguistic Justice

Language Policy and Linguistic Justice
Author: Michele Gazzola
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319752634

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Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of the labor market, education, minority languages, mobility, and social inclusion of migrants. They can affect the democratic control of political organizations, and they can either entrench or reduce inequalities. These are the central topics of this book. Economists, philosophers, political scientists, and sociolinguists discuss – from an interdisciplinary perspective – the distributive socio-economic effects of language policies, their impact on justice and inequality at the national or international level, as well as the connection between language choices and an inclusive access to public services. The range of social and economic issues raised by linguistic diversity in contemporary societies is large, and this requires new approaches to tackle them. This book provides new input to design better, more efficient, and fair language policies in order to manage linguistic diversity in different areas. Topics covered include: theoretical models of linguistic justice and linguistic disadvantage; the assessment of the socio-economic consequences of language policies; the evaluation of the costs, benefits, and degree of inclusion of language planning measures; the politics of migrants’ linguistic integration; as well as multilingualism and economic activities. These topics are discussed in different contexts, including the areas inhabited by linguistic minorities, cities receiving migrants, and supranational organizations.

Language Education

Language Education
Author: Nishevita Jayendran
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000412415

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• The book focuses on the teaching of English language and current studies in the pedagogy of language in Indian schools • It discusses issues of (second) language acquisition and learning, ELT studies, literacy studies and critical pedagogies in language and literature. • Will be of interest to teachers of secondary and higher secondary schools, teacher educators, curriculum designers and developers of language, teacher education institutions, departments of education and those working in the areas of language education and literacy across US and UK

Multilingual Brazil

Multilingual Brazil
Author: Marilda C. Cavalcanti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2017-09-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131722731X

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This book brings together cutting edge work by Brazilian researchers on multilingualism in Brazil for an English-speaking readership in one comprehensive volume. Divided into five sections, each with its own introduction, tying together the themes of the book, the volume charts a course for a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, challenging long-held perceptions about a monolingual Brazil by exploring the different policies, language resources, ideologies and social identities that have emerged in the country’s contemporary multilingual landscape. The book elucidates the country’s linguistic history to demonstrate its evolution to its present state, a country shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces both locally and globally, and explores different facets of today’s multilingual Brazil, including youth on the margins and their cultural and linguistic practices; the educational challenges of socially marginalized groups; and minority groups’ efforts to strengthen languages of identity and belonging. In addition to assembling linguistic research done in Brazil previously little known to an English-speaking readership, the book incorporates theoretical frameworks from other disciplines to provide a comprehensive picture of the social, political, and cultural dynamics at play in multilingual Brazil. This volume is key reading for researchers in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, cultural studies, and Latin American studies.