The Politics Of Language Purism

Author : Björn H. Jernudd
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110868377
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Language Purism written by Björn H. Jernudd and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : Olivia Walsh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266735
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Purism written by Olivia Walsh and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation, but they differ in their social, political and economic history. Three different levels of society are examined (official, group and individual), allowing a comparison of the ‘voice from above’ and the ‘voice from below’. This is a key element in recent discussions of language planning but is rarely provided in studies of French. The study is also the first to apply to empirical data Thomas’s widely cited theoretical framework for describing linguistic purism (1991), and has evaluated and refined this, enhancing the theoretical underpinnings of the field. The book will be of interest not only to French scholars and sociolinguists, but also to scholars of language planning, language policy and language ideologies in all languages.

Author : George Thomas
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Purism written by George Thomas and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Language and Linguistics is an occasional series incorporating major new work in small areas of linguistics.

Author : T. Kamusella
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230583474
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe written by T. Kamusella and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.

Author : Nils Langer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110901358
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages written by Nils Langer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities, etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from the contributions presented at a conference at the University of Bristol in 2003. In particular, the articles deal with the relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism, e.g. the influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries, to nationhood, e.g. the instrumentalising of purism in the standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish, to modern society, e.g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms, to folk linguistics, e.g. lay perceptions of different varieties of English, and to academic linguistics, e.g. the presence of puristic notions in the historiography of German or English.

Author : Jacob M. Landau
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472112265
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States written by Jacob M. Landau and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique analysis of language policies in the central Asian states of the former Soviet Union

Author : Lionel Wee
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272131
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of English written by Lionel Wee and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts also means that the social, political and cultural ramifications of the spread of English into Asia will have to be understood in relation to the challenges facing specific societies. The chapters in the book collectively illustrate this diversity by focusing on countries from South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific. Each country has two contributions devoted to it: one paper provides an overview of the country’s language policy and its positioning of English, and another provides a critical discussion of creative expressions involving the use of English. Taken together, the papers in the volume detail the most recent developments concerning the politics of English in Asia.

Author : Bambi B. Schieffelin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199880360
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Ideologies written by Bambi B. Schieffelin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. Mediating between social structures and forms of talk, such ideologies are not only about language. Rather, they link language to identity, power, aesthetics, morality and epistemology. Through such linkages, language ideologies underpin not only linguistic form and use, but also significant social institutions and fundamental nottions of person and community. The essays in this new volume examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of societies around the world. Contributors focus on how such defining activity organizes language use as well as institutions such as religious ritual, gender relations, the nation-state, schooling, and law. Beginning with an introductory survey of language ideology as a field of inquiry, the volume is organized in three parts. Part I, "Scope and Force of Dominant Conceptions of Language," focuse on the propensity of cultural models of language developed in one social domain to affect linguistic and social behavior across domains. Part II, "Language Ideology in Institutions of Power," continues the examination of the force of specific language beliefs, but narrows the scope to the central role that language ideologies play in the functioning of particular institutions of power such as schooling, the law, or mass media. Part III, "Multiplicity and Contention among Ideologies," emphasizes the existence of variability, contradiction, and struggles among ideologies within any given society. This will be the first collection of work to appear in this rapidly growing field, which bridges linguistic and social theory. It will greatly interest linguistic anthropologists, social and cultural anthropologists, sociolinguists, historians, cultural studies, communications, and folklore scholars.

Author : Alastair Pennycook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135184735X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language written by Alastair Pennycook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in sociolinguistics, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language explores the globalization of English by examining its colonial origins, its connections to linguistics and applied linguistics, and its relationships to the global spread of teaching practices. Nine chapters cover a wide range of key topics including: international politics colonial history critical pedagogy postcolonial literature. The book provides a critical understanding of the concept of the ‘worldliness of English’, or the idea that English can never be removed from the social, cultural, economic or political contexts in which it is used. Reissued with a substantial preface, this Routledge Linguistics Classic remains a landmark text, which led a much-needed critical and ideologically-informed investigation into the burgeoning topic of World Englishes. Key reading for all those working in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes.

Author : Victor N. Webb
Publisher : Van Schaik Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Language in South Africa written by Victor N. Webb and published by Van Schaik Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of language in South Africa is a selected collection of essays that contains the proceedings of a colloquium organised by Vic Webb, the guest editor.