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  • 2015-2019  (4)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (4)
  • Afrikanische Sprachen  (2)
  • Geschichte 1800-1900  (2)
  • Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures  (4)
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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316105023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4496
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Sprache ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; African languages / Social aspects ; Language policy / Africa ; Economic development / Africa ; Sociolinguistics ; Soziolinguistik ; Afrikanische Sprachen ; Sprachpolitik ; Afrika ; Africa / Languages / Social aspects ; Afrika ; Afrikanische Sprachen ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprachpolitik ; Afrika ; Sprachpolitik
    Abstract: Development is based on communication through language. With more than two thousand languages being used in Africa, language becomes a highly relevant factor in all sectors of political, social, cultural and economic life. This important sociolinguistic dimension hitherto remains underrated and under-researched in 'Western' mainstream development studies. The book discusses the resourcefulness of languages, both local and global, in view of the ongoing transformation of African societies as much as for economic development. From a novel 'applied African sociolinguistics' perspective it analyses the continuing effects of linguistic imperialism on postcolonial African societies, in particular regarding the educational sector, through imposed hegemonic languages such as Arabic and the ex-colonial languages of European provenance. It offers a broad interdisciplinary scientific approach to the linguistic dimensions of sociocultural modernisation and economic development in Africa, written for both the non-linguistically trained reader as much as for the linguistically trained researcher and language practitioner
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : approach, questions and themes -- Background : Africa and the West -- a difficult relationship -- Perception : between ignorance, half knowledge and distortion -- De-marginalisation : the cradle of mankind and home of human language -- Re-conceptualisation : the overdue linguistic turn in development discourse -- Challenges : linguistic plurality and diversity -- problem or resource? -- Future : synopsis and options for language planning -- Agenda : arguments and steps -- Basic sociolinguistic facts : languages, dialects, numbers of speakers
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016)
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  • 2
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    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107148536 , 9781316602607
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 261 Seiten , Karten
    DDC: 306.44/9595
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1870-1970 ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Language policy History 19th century ; Language policy History 20th century ; Multilingualism Political aspects ; History ; Malay language Political aspects ; History ; Chinese language Political aspects ; History ; Postcolonialism History ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; Sprache ; Sprachpolitik ; Herrschaft ; Asien ; Südostasien ; Malaysia Politics and government 19th century ; Malaysia Politics and government 20th century ; Malaysia ; Malaysia ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Herrschaft ; Geschichte 1870-1970
    Abstract: "Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series of key moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in which British and Asian actors wrought quiet battles in the realm of language: in textbooks and language classrooms; in dictionaries, grammars and orthographies; in propaganda and psychological warfare; and in the very planning of language itself. Every attempt to tame Chinese and Malay languages resulted in failures of translation, competence, and governance, exposing both the deep fragility of a monoglot state in polyglot milieux, and the essential untameable nature of languages in motion"...
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781107088559
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 358 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    DDC: 306.4496
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    Keywords: Afrikanische Sprachen ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprachpolitik ; Afrika
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 305-315 , Glossar
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  • 4
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316563007
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 261 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.44/9595
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1870-1970 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Language policy / Malaysia / History / 19th century ; Language policy / Malaysia / History / 20th century ; Multilingualism / Political aspects / Malaysia / History ; Malay language / Political aspects / Malaysia / History ; Chinese language / Political aspects / Malaysia / History ; Postcolonialism / Malaysia / History ; Herrschaft ; Sprache ; Sprachpolitik ; Malaysia / Politics and government / 19th century ; Malaysia / Politics and government / 20th century ; Malaysia ; Malaysia ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprache ; Herrschaft ; Geschichte 1870-1970
    Abstract: Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia. The book ranges across a series of key moments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in which British and Asian actors wrought quiet battles in the realm of language: in textbooks and language classrooms; in dictionaries, grammars and orthographies; in propaganda and psychological warfare; and in the very planning of language itself. Every attempt to tame Chinese and Malay languages resulted in failures of translation, competence, and governance, exposing both the deep fragility of a monoglot state in polyglot milieux, and the essential untameable nature of languages in motion
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. The Colonial State -- The technocrats : challenges of governance in a polyglot society -- The knowledge producers : taming sounds, scripts and selves -- Part II. Word Wars -- The lexicographers : dictionaries and the making of postwar politics -- The propagandists : public relations, psychological warfare and the making of the influential state -- Part III. The Postcolonial State -- The language planners : Dewan Bahasa in the invention and constriction of the postcolonial nation-state -- Postscript -- Appendices -- Glossary
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016)
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