ISBN:
9783110185997
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (448 p)
Series Statement:
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
Series Statement:
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] Ser v.92
Parallel Title:
Print version Along the Routes to Power : Explorations of Empowerment through Language
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Language planning
;
Language policy
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
Sociolinguistics ; Africa
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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 speakrs 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: Accomodation 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""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""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Section 2. Language policy and language planning: Empowering speakrs 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: Accomodation or alteration?""
Description / Table of Contents:
""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""
Description / Table of Contents:
""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 post-colonial 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""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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