Book Description
Pakistan has had many conflicts involving language. Relying on primary sources, Rahman has written a scholarly and objective account of the link between language and politics in Pakistan.
Author : Tariq Rahman
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : 9780195779998
Pakistan has had many conflicts involving language. Relying on primary sources, Rahman has written a scholarly and objective account of the link between language and politics in Pakistan.
Author : Tariq Rahman
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1995
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Tariq Rahman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN :
Pakistan has had many conflicts involving language. Relying on primary sources, Dr Rahman has written a scholarly and objective account of the link between language and politics in Pakistan.
Author : Alyssa Ayres
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521519314
This text examines language and culture's importance to political legitimacy using the example of Pakistan, in comparison with India and Indonesia.
Author : Anju Saxena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110197782
The increasing globalization and centralization in the world is threatening the existence of a large number of smaller languages. In South Asia some locally dominant languages (e.g., Hindi, Urdu, Nepali) are gaining ground beside English at the expense of the lesser-known languages. Despite a long history of stable multilingualism, language death is not uncommon in the South Asian context. We do not know how the language situation in South Asia will be affected by modern information and communication technologies: Will cultural and linguistic diversity be strengthened or weakened as they become increasingly prevalent in all walks of life? This volume brings together areas of research that so far do not interact to any significant extent: traditional South Asian descriptive linguistics and sociolinguistics, documentary linguistics, issues of intellectual and cultural property and fieldwork ethics, and language technology. Researchers working in the areas of documentary linguistics and language technology have become aware of each other in the last few years, and of how work in the other area could be potentially useful in furthering their own aims. Similarly, the insights of documentary linguistics are making their way into descriptive linguistics and sociolinguistics. However, the potential for synergy among these areas of research is almost limitless. This volume provides the reader, not so much with a do-it-yourself recipe for applying modern technology to the problem of language shift in South Asia today, but rather with some basic knowledge about the problems involved and some directions from which solutions could be forthcoming, a toolbox rather than a blueprint, for helping to shape the linguistic future of South Asia.
Author : Harold Schiffman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004217657
The book was co-edited by Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Language policy in Central Asia, Afghanistan and the immediately surrounding neighboring countries has a long and varied history. The Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan since 2001 have left the area in a state of flux. This volume gives a better picture about what is official and explicit, what is not official but implicit or general practice, and what the likely future developments might be. It is very clear that multilingualism, whether it involves Persian, Russian or English in addition to other languages, not only has long been a part of the scene, but will probably continue to be so.
Author : Sabiha Mansoor
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN :
Based on an in-depth sociolinguistic case study of language planning in Pakistan, this book examines the extent of the linguistic support in Urdu, English or the mother tongue available to students to cope with their courses in higher education. Keeping in view the paucity of research in the area of sociolinguistics, bililngual education, and language planning in the Pakistani and the South Asian context, this volume will be of interest not only to language planners and curriculum developers, but also to English language teachers and students in Pakistan and abroad. This study is unique in that it illustrates the sociolinguistic profile in Pakistan and provides insights into the complex issues of multiculturalism and ethnicity, and their impact on linguistic, educational and socio-cultural outcomes. It focuses particularly on problems confronting language planning in higher education, along with guidelines for its implementation.
Author : Sabiha Mansoor
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Provides The Pakistani And The South Asia Perspective On Language Planning, Reflections On Modern Approaches To English Language Teaching Including Elt And Information Technology. Divided Into Four Sections.
Author : Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781590334423
This book addresses important issues to the democratisation and development initiatives of developing countries. In many former colonies, the government remains centralised, and many in the population are unable to fully participate in its functioning. A critical difference between being a subject and a citizen is the ability to partake in governance. Such involvement requires knowledge, literacy, and the availability of literature in local and national languages. This book challenges policy makers and scholars to find creative ways of fostering political empowerment through developing language programmes.
Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137576472
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.