ISBN:
9780805834673
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (772 p)
Paralleltitel:
Print version Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?
DDC:
306.44
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Documents & analyzes the destruction of native languages & cultures that is taking place today & proposes alternative models & practices. A multi-disciplinary work drawing on education, applied language studies, sociology, psychology, & human rights.〈br〉
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Outline of the book; How to use the book-some advice to the reader; Who might want to read the book; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Asking why-questions; Repoliticizing the language of schooling; Acknowledging feelings, value judgements, and the need for action as legitimate parts of research; Standpoint theories; Linguistic genocide, language murder-a note on terminology; I Setting the Scene; 1 What is Happening to the Languages of the World; 1.1. Our knowledge about 'language' and languages
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1.2. The world's languages: number of languages and number of speakers1.3. The state of the languages: the 'moribund', the 'endangered', and the 'safe'; 1.4. Examples of languages pushed into disuse; 2 Connections Between Biodiversity and Linguistic and Cultural Diversity; 2.1. Our threefold living environment-biological, linguistic, and cultural-is threatened by globalisation; 2.2. Language and species-defining linguistic and biological diversity; 2.3. Comparing the threat towards biodiversity and linguistic diversity
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
2.4. The correlation between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity2.5. Causal connections between biodiversity and linguistic and cultural diversity?; 3 Mother Tongue(s), Culture, Ethnicity, and Self-Determination; 3.1. Conceptualizing ourselves and the world; 3.2. Mother tongue(s); 3.3. Cultural diversity and cultural competence; 3.4. Language(s) for multiple identities; 3.5. Ethnicity and language; 3.6. Language for control and domination, resistance, and self-determination; 4 Linguistic Diversity-Curse or Blessing? To Be Maintained or Not? Why?
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
4.1. Linguistic diversity in great myths4.2. The ideology of monolingual reductionism/stupidity/naivety; 4.3. Arguments for and against linguistic diversity; 4.4. The balance sheet: Epistemological arguments for linguistic and cultural diversity; 4.5. Esperanto?; II Linguistic Genocide, State Policies, and Globalisation; 5 State Policies Towards Languages-Linguistic Genocide, Language Death, or Support for Languages?; 5.1. Possible state policies towards languages/dialects/'non-standard' variants/'non-native' variants; 5.2. Linguistic genocide; 5.3. Linguistic genocide in educational practice
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
5.4. Language death and linguistic genocide/linguicide-two paradigms?6 Globalisation, Power, and Control; 6.1. Ideological reasons-power relations; 6.2. Political reasons-the 'nation state' 'demands' one language for unity?; 6.3. Economic reasons-the global 'free market'?; 6.4. 'Free' markets and human rights; III Struggle Against Linguistic Genocide and for Linguistic Human Rights in Education; 7 Linguistic Human Rights; 7.1. Introducing Linguistic Human Rights (LHRs); 7.2. Delimiting the topic-from language rights to educational linguistic human rights
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
7.3. A short history of language rights in the West
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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