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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... seen as ' pre - modern ' or ' primitive ' ( and hence in the shadow of Modernity ) , engaged in a process of transition to the Modernity that has already been purportedly attained by the colonizing cultures . As Paranjape ( 2002 : 13 ) ...
... seen as opaque , or to reduce the profusion of unknown signs into known codes , thereby imposing sense and control over what was seen as lacking both of these . Greenblatt calls this process the ' kidnapping ' of language . Also ...
... seen as a universal technology or a practice to be applied to one's own language , but is seen as someone else's language . Like a language with its own words and meanings , writing , on this view , has to be learnt part and parcel with ...
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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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