Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 38,50 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.
Author : Robert L. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521336413
This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization. Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, feminist campaigns to eliminate sexist bias in language, adult literacy campaigns, the plain language movement, efforts to distinguish American from British spelling, the American bilingual education movement, the creation of writing systems for unwritten languages, and campaigns to rid languages of foreign terms. Language Planning and Social Change is the first book to define the field of language planning and relate it to other aspects of social planning and to social change. The book is accessible and presupposes no special background in linguistics, sociology or political science. It will appeal to applied linguists and to those sociologists, economists and political scientists with an interest in language.
Author : Carol M. Eastman
Publisher : Chandler Sharp Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Because he has so many pets, including a cow and an elephant, an old man is told to move out of his apartment but can't find any other place to live.
Author : Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853598135
This text covers the language situation in Hungary, Finland, and Sweden explaining linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts, including language-in-education planning; and the roles of the media, of religion, and of minority and migrant languages. The authors have been participants in the language planning context in these polities.
Author : James W. Tollefson
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
An examination of how an individual's native language can affect their lifestyle. Topics covered range from maintenance of the mother-tongue and second language learning, to the ideology of language planning theory, to education and language rights.
Author : Gibson Ferguson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748626581
Language Planning is a resurgent academic discipline, reflecting the importance of language in issues of migration, globalisation, cultural diversity, nation-building, education and ethnic identity. Written as an advanced introduction, this book engages with all these themes but focuses specifically on language planning as it relates to education, addressing such issues as bilingualism and the education of linguistic minority pupils in North America and Europe, the educational and equity implications of the global spread of English, and the choice of media of instruction in post-colonial societies. Contextualising this discussion, the first two chapters describe the emergence and evolution of language planning as an academic discipline, and introduce key concepts in the practice of language planning. The book is wide-ranging in its coverage, with detailed discussion of the context of language policy in a variety of countries and communities across North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Author : Joseph LoBianco
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1783090065
This book is a timely comparison of the divergent worlds of policy implementation and policy ambition, the messy, often contradictory here-and-now reality of languages in schools and the sharp-edged, shiny, future-oriented representation of languages in policy. Two deep rooted tendencies in Australian political and social life, multiculturalism and Asian regionalism, are represented as key phases in the country’s experimentation with language education planning. Presenting data from a five year ethnographic study combined with a 40 year span of policy analysis, this volume is a rare book length treatment of the chasm between imagined policy and its experienced delivery, and will provide insights that policymakers around the world can draw on.
Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780333986424
This is a comprehensive advanced textbook covering not only language learning imposed by economic or political agendas but also language choices entered into freely for reasons of social mobililty, economic advantage or group identity. The first part of the book reviews the development and role of standard languages in the construction of national communities and identities. The second part examines the linguistic accomodation of groups in contact, major lingua francas and the case of "International English". The third section explores reactions to nationalism and globalization, with some attention to language rights. The book further deals with methodological problems of working in this interdisciplinary area, and provides detailed illustrations from a range of countries and communities.
Author : Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853593710
Language Planning from Practice to Theory examines and reviews the field of language policy and planning. In the first section of the book language policy and planning definitions, current practices, goals and ways of thinking are discussed as a foundation for understanding current practice in the discipline. The central elements of language policy and planning practice are then described from two perspectives. In the second section, the methodology for collecting language planning data is outlined and the key cross-societal issues of language-in-education planning, literacy and economics in language planning are discussed. In the third section, case studies related to language and power, bilingualism and status and specific purpose issues in language planning are covered. The final two chapters draw together the critical issues and problems which have arisen from current practice and which must be considered in building a theory of the discipline. A reference appendix to language planning in national situations is included. The book provides the only up-to-date overview and review of the field of language policy and planning and challenges language planners to think more critically about their discipline. Since language will be planned, there is a need to consider how it will be done.
Author : D. E. Ager
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853595288
The author concludes from these data that dynamic identity construction, followed by willingness to act in conformity with expectations, are key elements in the planned behaviour and reasoned action which all authorities take in relation to language."--BOOK JACKET.
