Disinventing and reconstituting languages
This book questions assumptions about the nature of language. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, the authors argue that unless we change the ways in which languages are taught and conceptualized, language studies will not be able to improve the social welfare of language users.
Print Book, English, 2007
Buffalo : Toronto : Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, [England], 2007
1 vol. (XV-249 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm.
9781853599231, 9781853599248, 1853599239, 1853599247
1006715552
Foreword by Ofelia GarciaChapter 1 Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages - Sinfree Makoni and Alastair PennycookChapter 2 Then There were Languages: Bahasa Indonesia was One Among Many - Ariel HeryantoChapter 3 Critical Historiography: Does Language Planning in Africa Need a Construct of Language as Part of its Theoretical Apparatus? - Sinfree Makoni & Pedzisai MashiriChapter 4 The Myth of English as an International Language - Alastair PennycookChapter 5 Beyond ‘Language’: Linguistic Imperialism, Sign Languages and Linguistic Anthropology - Jan Branson and Don MillerChapter 6 Entering a Culture Quietly: Writing and Cultural Survival in Indigenous Education in Brazil - Lynn Mario T. Menezes de SouzaChapter 7 A Linguistics of Communicative Activity - Steven L. Thorne & James P. LantolfChapter 8 (Dis)inventing Discourse: Examples from Black Culture and Hiphop Rap/Discourse - Elaine RichardsonChapter 9 Educational Materials Reflecting Heteroglossia: Disinventing Ethnolinguistic Differences in Bosnia-Herzegovina - Brigitta Busch & Jürgen SchickChapter 10 After Disinvention: Possibilities for Communication, Community, and Competence - A. Suresh Canagarajah