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Author : Jan Blommaert
Release : 2010-12-14
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Language Ideological Debates by : Jan Blommaert
Download or read book Language Ideological Debates written by Jan Blommaert. This book was released on 2010-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sally Johnson
Release : 2010-02-24
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Language Ideologies and Media Discourse by : Sally Johnson
Download or read book Language Ideologies and Media Discourse written by Sally Johnson. This book was released on 2010-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of this relationship.
Author : Alexandra Jaffe
Release : 2013-07-31
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Ideologies in Action by : Alexandra Jaffe
Download or read book Ideologies in Action written by Alexandra Jaffe. This book was released on 2013-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Corsica, spelling contests, road signs, bilingual education bills and Corsican language newscasts leave language planners and ordinary speakers deeply divided over how to define what "counts" as Corsican and how it is connected with cultural identity. In Ideologies in Action Alexandra Jaffe explores the complex interrelationship between linguistic ideologies and practices on the French island of Corsica. This detailed exploration of the ideological and political underpinnings of three decades of language planning raises fundamental questions about what it means to "save" a minority language, and the way in which specific cultural, political and ideological contexts shape the "successes" and "failures" of linguistic engineering efforts. Jaffe's ethnography focuses both on the way dominant language ideologies are inscribed in the everyday experience of ordinary people, as well as how they shape the evolving strategies of language planners trying to revitalize the Corsican language. While Jaffe's analysis demonstrates the pervasive influence of dominant language ideologies on minority language speakers and language planners, she also draws on case studies from everyday discourse, educational practice and public and mediatized debates over language issues to develop an ethnographically-grounded perspective on levels of resistance. In the final part of the book she explores the emergence (and the limits) of "radical" genres of resistance found in forms of Corsican language activism and in examples of codeswitching and language mixing in bilingual radio practice. This book contributes to a growing literature on language ideology, and will be of interest to anthropologists, political scientists and linguists interested in the practical and theoretical dimensions of language contact, minority language literacy, bilingual education, and language shift.
Author : Alexandre Duchene
Release : 2008-05-22
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Discourses of Endangerment by : Alexandre Duchene
Download or read book Discourses of Endangerment written by Alexandre Duchene. This book was released on 2008-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of defending languages against various kinds of dangers. Many of these current debates attach great importance to linguistic diversity. The debates focus on defending institutionalized languages against multilingualism, or conversely defending minority languages against the incursion of larger ones, especially the spread of English. In both cases, languages are constructed as autonomous wholes, held to need defending against attack. This book challenges such a view of language, to argue that the discussions in question are not in fact about language itself. The internationally renowned contributors claim that we are witnessing ideological struggles which are taking place on the terrain of language. Discourses of Endangerment addresses such questions as: * What does language represent in discussions of multilingualism? * Why is it constituted as an organic whole?* In whose interest does it lie to construct language in this way?* Who has an interest in taking various positions for or against official languages?* In what way is the linguistic order tied to the social order? The book addresses these issues through a set of case studies which locate the terms of the discussion in broad discourses of language, identity and power. Covering a wide-range of languages including Catalan, Swedish, Corsican, Ukrainian and French, from different sociolinguistic perspectives, this book is essential reading for students and academics interested in language endangerment and sociolinguistics.
Author : Dusan Radunović
Release : 2016-04-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 950/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Language, Ideology, and the Human by : Dusan Radunović
Download or read book Language, Ideology, and the Human written by Dusan Radunović. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions redefines the critical picture of language as a system of signs and ideological tropes inextricably linked to human existence. Offering reflections on the status, discursive possibilities, and political, ideological and practical uses of oral or written word in both contemporary society and the work of previous thinkers, this book traverses South African courts, British clinics, language schools in East Timor, prison cells, cinemas, literary criticism textbooks and philosophical treatises in order to forge a new, diversified perspective on language, ideology, and what it means to be human. This truly international and interdisciplinary collection explores the implications that language, always materialising in the form of a historically and ideologically identifiable discourse, as well as the concept of ideology itself, have for the construction, definition and ways of speaking about 'the human'. Thematically arranged and drawing together the latest research from experts around the world, Language, Ideology, and the Human offers a view of language, ideology and the human subject that eschews simplifications and binary definitions. With contributions from across the social sciences and humanities, this book will appeal to scholars from a range of disciplines, including sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, law, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy and political science.
