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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... words , there is no one hegemonic set of values providing meanings for a range of concrete entities and activities . Just as is the case with sounds , neither are persons , activities , tools , properties , space , time , words or ...
... words , but to one's listener's sensibility ' . The words are chosen ' not according to [ one's ] listener's capability to understand , but as though languages are not arbi- trary matters ' ( Siegel , 1986 : 19 ) . In speaking basa ...
Sinfree Makoni, Alastair Pennycook. of words in utterances is crucial in determining such things as ' dual - cate- gory words ' ( e.g. bite , kiss , drink , brush , etc. ) . Importantly , although commu- nicative function plays a central ...
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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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