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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... global capitalism , and ' multi - culturalism ' was for a while politically correct , these have come and gone as dictated at a higher level by the logic of centralised efficiency , accumulated profit and global domination ...
... global spread of English , colonial language policies and English and critical approaches to English language teaching - I here intend to address an issue that might seem contradictory when placed alongside these concerns . Although the ...
... global spread of English , Sir John Hanson , the former Director - General of the British Council , is able to proclaim : ' On it still strides : we can argue about what globalisation is till the cows come - but that globalisation ...
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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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