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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... invention are real , but that we must rethink what the social , political and economic consequences would be if we no longer posited the existence of separate languages . In other words , this book argues that the invention of languages ...
... invention of and specific ways of imagining language is , therefore , within the broader context of colonial invention . Our position that languages are inventions is consistent with observations that many structures , systems and ...
... invention , viewed from this perspec- tive , suggests that languages may exist , but they do so only as a product of human interests . This first meaning is linked to our basic concern about the very real invention of languages . Many ...
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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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