The Languages Of Nation

Author : Carol Percy
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847697801
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Languages of Nation written by Carol Percy and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives from language studies, lexicography, literature, and cultural studies, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity beyond monolingual citizenship - nativeness, ethnicity, politics, religion, empire. Some chapters focus on traditional instruments of prescriptivism: language academies in Europe; government language planners in southeast Asia; dictionaries and grammars from Early Modern and imperial Britain, republican America, the postcolonial Caribbean, and modern Germany. Other chapters consider the roles of scholars in prescriptivism, as well as the more informal and populist mechanisms of enforcement expressed in newspapers. With a thematic introduction articulating links between its breadth of perspectives, this accessible book should engage everyone concerned with language norms.

Author : Jenny L. Davis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537682
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Indian written by Jenny L. Davis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable look at how Native language programs contribute to broader community-building efforts--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ajanta Sircar
Publisher : Seagull Books
ISBN 13 : 9781906497309
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing the Nation written by Ajanta Sircar and published by Seagull Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As films like 'Slumdog Millionaire' attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the Bollywood images that frequently spring to mind. In 'Framing the Nation', Sircar maps the distance that film theory has traveled in the Anglo-American academy and India in recent decades.

Author : Lee Hock Guan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812304827
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia written by Lee Hock Guan and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137576472
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Policy and Language Planning written by Sue Wright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.

Author : Gillian Lane-Mercier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773555889
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies written by Gillian Lane-Mercier and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-12-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a context where linguistic and cultural diversity is characterized by ever-increasing complexity, adopting official multilingual policies to correct a country's ethno-linguistic, socio-economic, and symbolic imbalances presents many obstacles, but the greatest challenge is implementing them effectively. To what degree and in what ways have official multilingualism and multiculturalism policies actually succeeded in attaining their goals? Questioning and challenging foundational concepts, Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies highlights the extent to which governments and international bodies are unable to manage complex linguistic and cultural diversity on an effective and sustained basis. This volume examines the principles, theory, intentions, and outcomes of official policies of multilingualism at the city, regional, and national levels through a series of international case studies. The eleven chapters – most focusing on lesser-known geopolitical contexts and languages – bring to the fore the many paradoxes that underlie the concept of diversity, lived experiences of and attitudes toward linguistic and cultural diversity, and the official multilingual policies designed to legally enhance, protect, or constrain otherness. An authoritative source of new and updated information, offering fresh interpretations and analyses of evolving sociolinguistic and political phenomena in today's global world, Minority Languages, National Languages, and Official Language Policies demonstrates how language policies often fail to deal appropriately or adequately with the issues they are designed to solve.

Author : William R. Beer
Publisher : Government Institutes
ISBN 13 : 9780865980587
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Policy and National Unity written by William R. Beer and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central focus of each chapter is language policy and how it accomplishes-or fails to accomplish-the task of maintaining national unity in the face of linguistic diversity. Included among the nations considered are examples of postcolonial cultures, as well as nations that have sheltered linguistic minorities within their borders throughout their history, countries fragmented into tribal groups, and those divided by a plethora of local dialects.

Author : Max L. Baeumer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of National Languages written by Max L. Baeumer and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan Rubin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824880706
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can Language be Planned? written by Joan Rubin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneer study goes well beyond the subject of linguistics to encompass economic, sociological, political, and educational approaches to language change. In the context of the development of national resources, the book focuses on language planning--the deliberate change and promotion of language structure and language use. It outlines a theoretical approach to the study of language planning and includes selected case studies which demonstrate the possibilities of broadening and improving national planning by taking linguistic and human resources into explicit account to enhance forecasting. The contributors to this volume include highly renowned experts in their respective academic fields as well as actual language planners. They were brought together on the instigation of a study group on language-planning processes sponsored by the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, with Ford Foundation support. Can Language Be Planned? is one result of their joint studies. An on-going cross-national research project on language-planning processes at Stanford University is another.

Author : Ying-Ying Tan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429838123
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Nations, and Multilingualism written by Ying-Ying Tan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, Nations, and Multilingualism explores the legacy of Herder’s ideas about the relationship between language and nationalism in the post-colonial world. Focusing on how anti-colonial and post-colonial nations reconcile their myriad multilingualisms with the Herderian model of one language-one nation, it shows how Herder’s model is both attractive and problematic for such nations. Why then does the Herderian model have such valency? How has the Herderian ideal of one nation-one language continued to survive beneath the uncomfortable resolution struck by new multilingual nations as they create fictions of a singular national mother tongue? To what extent is Herder still relevant in our contemporary world? How have different nations negotiated the Herderian ideal in different ways? What does the way in which multilingual post-colonial nations deal with this crisis tell us about a possible alternative framework for understanding the relationship between language and nation? By approaching this investigation from diverse archives across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Language, Nations, and Multilingualism proposes answers to the aforementioned questions from a global perspective that takes into account the specificities of a range of colonial experiences and political regimes. And by extending the discussion backwards in time to offer a more historical reading of the making of modern nations, it allows us to see how multilingualism has always disrupted constructions of monoglot nations.