ISBN:
9781403997463
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (279 p)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Language, Education and Nation-building : Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia
DDC:
306.44959
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics -- Southeast Asia
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Language planning -- Southeast Asia
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Education -- Southeast Asia
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Language and culture -- Southeast Asia
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Southeast Asia -- Languages
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Maps; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Language, Education and Nation-building in Southeast Asia: An Introduction; 1 Brunei Darussalam: Issues of Language, Identity and Education; 2 Diversity and 'Development': The Challenges of Education in Cambodia; 3 From Sentimentalism to Pragmatism? Language-in-education Policy-making in Timor-Leste; 4 Language Shift and Language Maintenance in Indonesia; 5 Language/ing in Education: Policy Discourse, Classroom Talk and Ethnic Identities in the Lao PDR
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Political, Educational and Socioeconomic Motivations for Language Shift in Multilingual Malaysia7 Language, Education and Nation-building in Myanmar; 8 A 'New' Politics of Language in the Philippines: Bilingual Education and the New Challenge of the Mother Tongues; 9 The Minoritization of Languages in Singapore; 10 Languages, Identities and Education in Thailand; 11 Language Policies in Modern-day Vietnam: Changes, Challenges and Complexities; Epilogue - The Dwindling Cultural and Linguistic Diversity of Southeast Asian Societies: Comparative Reflections from an Anthropological Perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
Note:
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