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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... dictionaries in African languages were bilingual . For example , one of the earliest dictionaries ( published before Johnson's famous English dictionary ) was a quadrilingual dictionary comprising Italian , Latin , Spanish and kiKongo ...
... dictionaries is taking place against a background in which the relationships between African expertise and western scholarship are radically being reconfig- ured . Ranger makes an astute observation when he writes , ' ... in contempo ...
... dictionaries went so far as to define God as mudzimu , an interpretation that is inaccurate even from an Africanist perspective because mudzimu is an intermediary and not an ultimate being . Jeater aptly describes the process that took ...
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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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