Download or read book Languages in a Globalising World written by Jacques Maurais and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book The Politics of Regional Integration in Latin America written by O. Dabène and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the widely admitted failure of regional integration in this continent, linking the features of regional institutional arrangements with domestic politics and includes an inquiry into regionalism at the hemispherical level.
Download or read book Linguistic Genocide in Education or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights written by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful, multidisciplinary book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Theory is combined with a wealth of factual encyclopedic information and with many examples and vignettes. The examples come from all parts of the world and try to avoid Eurocentrism. Oriented toward theory and practice, facts and evaluations, and reflection and action, the book prompts readers to find information about the world and their local contexts, to reflect and to act. A Web site with additional resource materials to this book can be found at http://www.ruc.dk/~tovesk/
Download or read book Translinguistics written by Jerry Won Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translinguistics represents a powerful alternative to conventional paradigms of language such as bilingualism and code-switching, which assume the compartmentalization of different 'languages' into fixed and arbitrary boundaries. Translinguistics more accurately reflects the fluid use of linguistic and semiotic resources in diverse communities. This ground-breaking volume showcases work from leading as well as emerging scholars in sociolinguistics and other language-oriented disciplines and collectively explores and aims to reconcile the distinction between 'innovation' and 'ordinariness' in translinguistics. Features of this book include: 18 chapters from 28 scholars, representing a range of academic disciplines and institutions from 11 countries around the world; research on understudied communities and geographic contexts, including those of Latin America, South Asia, and Central Asia; several chapters devoted to the diversity of communication in digital contexts. Edited by two of the most innovative scholars in the field, Translinguistics: Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the question of multilingualism across a variety of subject areas.
Download or read book Hegemony of English written by Donaldo Macedo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[P]erhaps the best analysis of the English-only movement in the US and the ramifications worldwide of language policies favouring English ...It displays a dazzling grasp of the many meanings of language and the politics that underlie language policy and educational discourse.' Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York 'In the present political climate, racism and classism often hide behind seemingly technical issues about English in the modern world. The Hegemony of English courageously unmasks these deceptions and points the way to a more humane and sane way to discuss language in our global world.' James Paul Gee, University of Wisconsin, Madison The Hegemony of English succinctly exposes how the neoliberal ideology of globalization promotes dominating language policies. In the United States and Europe these policies lead to linguistic and cultural discrimination while, worldwide, they aim to stamp out a greater use and participation of national and subordinate languages in world commerce and in international organizations such as the European Union. Democracy calls for broad, multi-ethnic participation, and the authors point us toward more effective approaches in an increasingly interconnected world.
Download or read book Linguistic Ecology written by Peter Mühlhäusler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics, which up until now has been dominated by questions of historical reconstruction and language typology. In contrast to the traditional portrayal of linguistic change as a natural process, the author focuses on the cultural and historical forces which drive language change. Using the metaphor of language ecology to explain and describe the complex interplay between languages, speakers and social practice, the author looks at how language ecologies have functioned in the past to sustain language diversity, and, at what happens when those ecologies are disrupted. Whilst most of the examples used in the book are taken from the Pacific and Australian region, the insights derived from this area are shown to have global applications. The text should be useful for linguists and all those interested in the large scale loss of human language.
Download or read book International Politics written by Kalevi Jaakko Holsti and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For sophomere/junior level courses in International Relations or World Politics in Departments of Political Science. This text provides an integrated framework for analysis of international politics by linking various approaches of study into a coherent whole.
Download or read book Sociolinguistics written by Ulrich Ammon and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2005 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
