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Format: 1 online resource (426 p.)

ISBN: 9783110923247 , 9783110238570

Series Statement: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 92

Content: The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of power and/or empowerment as observed in the status and use of language(s) and their speakers in bilingual and multilingual communities. The book discusses the theoretical issues inherent in the relation between language and power, the empowerment strategies involved in language policy and language planning situations, and the issue of language endangerment in Africa, i.e., the fate of minority languages and their speakers and the sociopolitical factors perpetuating their exclusion from access to knowledge and skills. The volume constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists from many countries who explore the exciting interdisciplinary area of language, power, and linguistic empowerment. Broadly speaking, the papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language policy and language planning situations in multilingual settings, language choices, code switches, and associated topics. Thus, the aim of the volume is to open up language policy and language planning issues as observed in multilingual contexts (nations, institutions, other settings, and domains) to the wider community of critical sociolinguistics by concentrating on the relationship between language and power. More particularly, it offers a decidedly sociolinguistic perspective to the study of language and power, which likewise has been tackled from other perspectives in the areas of sociology and political science. This interdisciplinary relationship is important both for linguistics and for the sociology of language. In this way, the book is an important contribution to general linguistics, sociolinguistics, minority issues in multilingual settings as well as the social sciences. In honor of his upcoming 80th birthday (2006) , Fishman's colleagues and former students are preparing five volumes by him or about him, this being one of them.

Note: i-iv -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgements -- , Contents -- , Introduction: Along the routes to power -- , Section 1. Theoretical perspectives: Linguistic empowerment and language choices -- , Sociolinguistics: More power(s) to you! (On the explicit study of power in sociolinguistic research) -- , The power of language, the language of power -- , Language endangerment, the construction of indigenous languages and world English -- , The power to choose and its sociolinguistic implications -- , How codeswitching as an available option empowers bilinguals -- , Section 2. Language policy and language planning: Empowering speakers of minority languages in communities and institutions -- , Language policy failures -- , Empowerment through the community language - A challenge -- , Pidgins and Creoles between endangerment and empowerment: A dynamic view of empowerment in the growth and the decline of contact languages, especially in the Pacific -- , Lost in transculturation: The case of bilingual education in New York City -- , Language policies in Spain: Accommodation or alteration? -- , The potential of parliaments for the empowerment of linguistic minorities: Experiences from Scotland and Norway -- , The dominance of languages and language communities in the European Union (EU) and the consequences -- , Section 3. The language empowerment discourse: Case studies of language policy and language planning in Africa -- , Socio-political factors in the evolution of language policy in post-Apartheid South Africa -- , Marginalisation and empowerment through educational medium: The case of the linguistically disadvantaged groups of Botswana and Tanzania -- , Language policy, cultural rights and the law in Botswana -- , We speak Otjiherero but we write in English - Disempowerment through language use in participatory extension work -- , Empowerment through English - A realistic view of the educational promotion of English in postcolonial contexts: The case of Nigeria -- , Life in a Tower of Babel without a language policy -- , JK Nyerere of Tanzania and the empowerment of Swahili -- , Living on borrowed tongues? A view from within -- , Index , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110185997

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

DOI: 10.1515/9783110923247

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110923247

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Format: XXII, 236 S. : , Kt.

ISBN: 978-1-8476-9340-2

Series Statement: Multilingual matters 144

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-8476-9341-9

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Lao ; Sprachgebrauch ; Sprachpolitik

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: xxii, 236 p. : , maps.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: Multilingual matters ; 144

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781847693419

Series Statement: Multilingual Matters

Content: Language is a sensitive issue in the developing world, because language choice and behaviour are integral to the social, economic and political stability of multicultural societies. To what extent does this argument hold? Does language make a difference when it comes to development, and is there a perceptible difference in development between countries that is attributable to their choice of language? This book sets out to answer these questions by investigating how language has been and is being used in four countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (i.e. Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam), especially in the critical areas of education, health, the economy and governance.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , Chapter 1. Language and Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region -- , Chapter 2. Language and Education in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region -- , Chapter 3. Language and Health in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region -- , Chapter 4. Language and the Economy in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region -- , Chapter 5. Language and Governance in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region -- , Chapter 6. The Language Difference -- , References , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.21832/9781847693419

URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847693419

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781847690470

Series Statement: Multilingual Matters

Content: This book discusses the existing sociolinguistic order in Africa, how it is sustained, how it might be changed to the advantage of those who are dominated by it and, most importantly, how it affects the development potential of the Continent. It raises issues about African languages that the average person is not always aware of. For example, why must the African child learn how to read and write in a foreign language? Why must all African doctors be trained in languages that their patient population do not understand? Why must African leaders address their people in languages they know the people do not understand? What are the flow-on effects of these language practices on Africa’s development goals? The book also proposes sustainable and development-oriented alternatives to these practices.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , 1. Prolegomena to the Sociolinguistics of Development -- , 2. Language, Education and Development -- , 3. Language, Health and Development -- , 4. Language, the Economy and Development -- , 5. Language, Governance and Development -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , References , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.21832/9781847690470

URL: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847690470