Disinventing and Reconstituting 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 Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages write by Sinfree Makoni. This book was released on 2007. Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Voices of Modernity
Voices of Modernity - 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 Voices of Modernity write by Richard Bauman. This book was released on 2003-07-03. Voices of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This novel reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory, anthropology, folklore and history argues that new ways of imagining language and representing supposedly premodern people - the poor, labourers, country folk, non-europeans and women - made political and scientific revolutions possible. The connections between language ideologies, privileged linguistic codes, and political concepts and practices shape the diverse ways we perceive ourselves and others. Bauman and Briggs demonstrate that contemporary efforts to make schemes of social inequality based on race, gender, class and nationality seem compelling and legitimate, rely on deeply-rooted ideas about language and tradition. Showing how critics of modernity unwittingly reproduce these foundational fictions, they suggest new strategies for challenging the undemocratic influence of these voices of modernity.
Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South
Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South - 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 Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South write by Alastair Pennycook. This book was released on 2019-07-23. Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South. Global South perspectives are encapsulated in struggles for basic, economic, political and social transformation in an inequitable world, and are not confined to the geographical South. Taking a critical perspective on Southern theories, demonstrating why it is important to view the world from Southern perspectives and why such positions must be open to critical investigation, this book: charts the impacts of these theories on approaches to multilingualism, language learning, language in education, literacy and diversity, language rights and language policy; provides broad historical and geographical understandings of the movement towards a Southern perspective and draws on Indigenous and Southern ways of thinking that challenge mainstream viewpoints; seeks to develop alternative understandings of applied linguistics, expand the intellectual repertoires of the discipline, and challenge the complicities between applied linguistics, colonialism, and capitalism. Written by two renowned scholars in the field, Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South is key reading for advanced students and researchers of applied linguistics, multilingualism, language and education, language policy and planning, and language and identity.
Language Planning in Africa
Language Planning in Africa - 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 Planning in Africa write by Nkonko Kamwangamalu. This book was released on 2013. Language Planning in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume focuses on language planning in the Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation (including language-in-education planning), the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. This book comprises case studies originally published in the journal Current Issues in Language Planning.
Language and Identity
Language and Identity - 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 Identity write by J. Joseph. This book was released on 2004-05-28. Language and Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, ethnic and religious identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from various parts of the world in order to arrive at some general principles concerning the links between language and identity. It will benefit students and researchers in a wide range of fields where identity is an important issue and who currently lack a single source to turn to for an overview of sociolinguistics.
