Language Policy and Conflict Prevention - 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 Policy and Conflict Prevention write by Iryna Ulasiuk. This book was released on 2018-04-10. Language Policy and Conflict Prevention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Language policy can promote stability. For many individuals and groups, language is a key component of identity, and threats to it can raise tensions. Respect for linguistic rights, whilst also considering a state’s need to maintain cohesion, reduces conflict potential. The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities promotes functional solutions to such contentious issues, and the Oslo Recommendations regarding the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities address these challenges. This book analyses the components of a balanced legal and policy framework on language use, with a view to preventing conflict. In addition to reviewing the work of the OSCE HCNM in this area, it also draws upon the expertise of other international organisations and leading academics working in this field. See inside the book.
Language Policies in Education
Language Policies in Education - 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 Policies in Education write by James W. Tollefson. This book was released on 2012-10-02. Language Policies in Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do language policies in schools create inequalities among learners? How do policies marginalize some students while granting privilege to others? How do language policies in education serve the interests of dominant groups within societies? How can linguistic minorities further their interests through attempts to change language policies in schools? This new edition of Language Policies in Education takes a fresh look at these enduring questions at the heart of fundamental debates about the role of schools in society, the links between education and employment, and conflicts between linguistic minorities and "mainstream" populations. Reflecting developments in language policy since the publication of the first edition in 2002, all chapters are original and substantial contributions to the study of language policy and exemplify major theories and research methods in the field. Chapter authors are major scholars in language policy and critical language studies. The case studies, international in scope, present cutting-edge analyses of important language policy debates in countries around the world.
Language-related Conflicts in Multinational and Multiethnic Settings
Language-related Conflicts in Multinational and Multiethnic Settings - 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-related Conflicts in Multinational and Multiethnic Settings write by Barbora Moormann-Kimáková. This book was released on 2015-11-18. Language-related Conflicts in Multinational and Multiethnic Settings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Barbora Moormann-Kimáková analyses the possibility of finding an optimal language regime in multinational and multiethnic countries – either by defining the contents of an optimal language regime, or with the help of a criterion enabling to evaluate whether a language regime is optimal or not. The process of the selection or change of a language regime often becomes a matter of a language-related conflict. These conflicts are mostly accompanied by other political or social conflicts, as for example in Ukraine or former Yugoslavia, which render solutions – and their evaluation – difficult. The author claims that language regimes can be evaluated based on the increase or lack of their legitimacy in the eyes of the relevant actors. This is demonstrated in four language regime studies on the European Union, Soviet Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and South Africa.
Language, Negotiation and Peace
Language, Negotiation and Peace - 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, Negotiation and Peace write by Patricia Friedrich. This book was released on 2007-07-01. Language, Negotiation and Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The end of the twentieth- and beginning of the twenty-first centuries have witnessed a large scale increase in demands for international peace keeping mechanisms. Because of a complex history of spread and power, English has become the de facto lingua franca of international communication and negotiation, and the inevitable accompaniment to this is the growth in hostility against the perceived imperialism of the English language. This book argues that the growth of English(es) as a lingua franca has the potential to foster closer bonds between communities, countries and continents. Using the background methodology of Peace Studies, Patricia Friedrich applies political theory to linguistic evidence, to show how English can be instrumental both in the restoration of peace and in the building of social justice. In this analysis, the language classroom emerges as a central site in conflict prevention. A fascinating, innovative study of the place of the English language in the modern world, this book will be of interest to academics researching applied linguistics or world Englishes.
Languages at War
Languages at War - 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 Languages at War write by H. Footitt. This book was released on 2015-12-26. Languages at War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emphasising the significance of foreign languages at the centre of war and conflict, this book argues that 'foreignness' and foreign languages are key to our understanding of what happens in war. Through case studies the book traces the role of languages in intelligence, military deployment, soldier/civilian meetings, occupation and peace building.
