De-hegemonizing Language Standards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook De-hegemonizing Language Standards write by Arjuna Parakrama. This book was released on 1995-01-01. De-hegemonizing Language Standards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here, an examination of so-called uneducated and otherwise non-standard usage in the Sri Lankan context, including popular cultural and protest writing and speech, shows that Sri Lankans communicate powerfully and creatively in this medium. The legitimization of this practice on the margins leads to a de-hegemonizing of language standards. What can be seen in the Sri Lankan context is not specific to it, but shown to be typical of all languages in use, and, in an analogous argument, the claim is extended from the narrowly linguistic sphere to the much broader field of discursive practice in general.
De-Hegemonizing Language Standards
De-Hegemonizing Language Standards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook De-Hegemonizing Language Standards write by A. Parakrama. This book was released on 2015-12-17. De-Hegemonizing Language Standards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the 'other' or postcolonial Englishes. On the basis of this understanding of the standard, while at the same time, accepting the necessity of standards, however attenuated, the writer argues for the active broadening of the standard to include the greatest variety possible - privileging 'meaning' over other rules - and holds that this would in fact work towards extending the bounds of linguistic tolerance.
Language and Linguistics in Context
Language and Linguistics in Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and Linguistics in Context write by Harriet Luria. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Language and Linguistics in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking a sociocultural and educational approach, Language and Linguistics in Context: Readings and Applications for Teachers: *introduces basic linguistic concepts and current perspectives on language acquisition; *considers the role of linguistic change (especially in English) in the politics of language; *acknowledges the role of linguists in current policies involving language; *offers insights into the relationship between the structure of language systems and first- and second-language acquisition; the study of language across culture, class, race, gender, and ethnicity; and between language study and literacy and education; and *provides readers with a basis for understanding current educational debates about bilingual education, non-standard dialects, English only movements, literacy methodologies, and generally the importance to teaching of the study of language. The text is organized into three thematic units – "What is Language and How is It Acquired?"; "How Does Language Change?"; and "What is Literacy?". To achieve both breadth and depth – that is, to provide a “big picture” view of basic linguistics and at the same time make it specific enough for the beginner – a selection of readings, including personal language narratives, is provided to both introduce and clarify linguistic concepts. The readings, by well-known theoretical and applied linguists and researchers from various disciplines, are diverse in level and range of topics and vary in level of linguistic formalism. Pedagogical features: This text is designed for a range of courses in English and language arts, bilingualism, applied linguistics, and ESL courses in teacher education programs. Each unit contains a substantive introduction to the topic, followed by the readings. Each reading concludes with Questions to Think About including one Extending Your Understanding question, and a short list of Terms to Define. Each unit ends with additional Extending Your Understanding and Making Connections activities that engage readers in applying what they have read to teaching and suggested projects and a bibliography of Print and Web Resources. The readings and apparatus are arranged so that the material can be modified to fit many course plans and schemes of presentation. To help individual instructors make the most effective use of the text in specific classes, a set of matrixes is provided suggesting configurations of readings for different types of linguistics and education classes.
The Intricacy of Languages
The Intricacy of Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Intricacy of Languages write by Francesc Feliu. This book was released on 2019-10-15. The Intricacy of Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If, as we believe, the history of languages is the history of the construction of an ideal artefact that permits a specific interpretation of the linguistic reality and helps to approve and assimilate a certain zone of diversity, enabling the accumulation of collective historical knowledge and making us identify it with a social community and a territory, then it must be agreed that languages are extremely complex entities. The new linguistic diversity that cultural globalisation and recent population movements have installed in most traditional linguistic territories has probably put the ideology of the national language into a state of crisis and, as a consequence, has made the ancient, intrinsic diversity of all languages visible, at least to the extent that this is still possible. Nowadays, then, the old linguistic diversity of dialects, of parlances, of local lexicons and the cultural forms that are reflected in these, of varieties and previously unsuccessful linguistic entities has been given a new opportunity in a world where the cohesion of societies and the welfare of citizens must be guaranteed using all available means. Looked at this way, the intricacy of languages may even open up an opportunity for local economic and social development.
The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800
The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800 write by Laura Wright. This book was released on 2006-11-02. The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.
