Disinventing and Reconstituting LanguagesSinfree Makoni, Alastair Pennycook Multilingual Matters, 2007 - 249 頁 This book questions assumptions about the nature of language and how language is conceptualized. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, from hip-hop in the US to education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book forcefully argues that a critique of common linguistic and metalinguistic suppositions is not only a conceptual but also a sociopolitical necessity. Just as many notions of language are highly suspect, so too are many related concepts premised on a notion of discrete languages, such as language rights, mother tongues, multilingualism, or code-switching. Definitions of language in language policies, education and assessment have material and often harmful consequences for people. Unless we actively engage with the history of invention of languages in order to radically change and reconstitute the ways in which languages are taught and conceptualized, language studies will not be able to improve the social welfare of language users. |
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... Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Penn State University . He is also Director of the Center for Language Acquisition and co - Director of CALPER ( Center for Advanced Language ...
... linguistics , when , from an integra- tional linguistic perspective , Harris tells us that linguistics does not need ... applied and unapplied linguistics , with their belief in the existence and describability of discrete languages ...
... applied ' form of this descriptive linguistics . This applied form would subsequently transform , as described by Auroux , linguistic descrip- tions into pedagogic grammars and writing systems into orthographies . In present - day ...
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Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages | 1 |
Bahasa Indonesia was One Among | 42 |
Does Language Planning in Africa Need | 62 |
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