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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... monolingual norm of speakerhood ' ( Hill , 2002 : 128 ) , a paradoxical state of affairs given that many language counters are also proponents of multilingualism . At the heart of such language enumer- ation is the same census ideology ...
... monolingual . For example , in Zimbabwe , the agenda set in 2000 for the African Languages Research Institute ( ALRI ) was , amongst other things , to produce monolingual dictionaries in ChiShona and SiNdebele as apparent in Chimhundu ...
... Monolingual nuclei and multilingual satellites . Language Problems & Language Planning 12 ( 1 ) , 14 . Doke , C. ( 1931 ) Report on the Unification of Shona Dialects . London : Stephen Austin and Sons . Dwyer , D. ( 1999 ) The language ...
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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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