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Author : Aldo D. Scaglione
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Language and languages
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Author : Jyotirindra Das Gupta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0520414705
This is the first systematic study of language conflict in a developing society and of its consequences for the integrational processes of nation building. Jyotirindra Das Gupta maintains that language rivalry does not necessarily impede national integration, but can actually contribute to the development of a national community. He explains that the existence of a multiplicity of language groups in a segmented society is not, in itself, indicative of the prospects for successful integration. Only when language groups mobilize into political interest groups is it possible to determine the pattern of intergroup conflict likely to emerge. The way in which this conflict is handled and resolved depends upon the general political atmosphere and upon the type of institutions available for decision making. In the specific case of India, the author finds that because the Indian government has proved capable of meeting the demands of diverse language interests, it is supported by the Indian population as a whole for its role in mediating language rivalries. This book therefore offers evidence for the efficacy of democratic procedures for political development and integration. In the course of his analysis, Das Gupta discusses the impact of Indian language associations on national politics and on the political community in general; the formulation and implementation of a national language policy; and the language policies of nationalist and of separatist groups both before and since Independence. In order to place the Indian experience in a wider context he provides comparative empirical data from other countries. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.
Author : Max Lorenz Baeumer (Germanist.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 1984
Category :
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Author : William D. Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108655475
As the colonial hegemony of empire fades around the world, the role of language in ethnic conflict has become increasingly topical, as have issues concerning the right of speakers to choose and use their preferred language(s). Such rights are often asserted and defended in response to their being violated. The importance of understanding these events and issues, and their relationship to individual, ethnic, and national identity, is central to research and debate in a range of fields outside of, as well as within, linguistics. This book provides a clearly written introduction for linguists and non-specialists alike, presenting basic facts about the role of language in the formation of identity and the preservation of culture. It articulates and explores categories of conflict and language rights abuses through detailed presentation of illustrative case studies, and distills from these key cross-linguistic and cross-cultural generalizations.
Author : Gerhard Leitner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110181944
Develops a comprehensive, descriptive, and sociohistorical view of mainstream Australian English and of the social processes that have made it possible for it to become the national language of Australia reaching out into the Asia-Pacific region.
Author : Timo Kaitaro
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004507248
The monograph tells a different story on the history of modern philosophy: the narrative is no longer centred on the question whether knowledge results from experience or reason, but whether experience and reason are in fact possible without language.
Author : Bernard Spolsky
Publisher :
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Education
ISBN :
This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs about language varieties, and methods and agencies for language management. It will be welcomed by students, researchers and language professionals in linguistics, education and politics.
Author : Lee Hock Guan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9812304827
Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.
Author : Minae Mizumura
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231538545
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in the globalized world of the Internet, English is fast becoming the sole common language of humanity. The process is unstoppable, and striving for total language equality is delusional—and yet, particular kinds of knowledge can be gained only through writings in specific languages. Mizumura calls these writings "texts" and their ultimate form "literature." Only through literature and, more fundamentally, through the diverse languages that give birth to a variety of literatures, can we nurture and enrich humanity. Incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language and embedding a parallel history of Japanese, Mizumura offers an intimate look at the phenomena of individual and national expression.
Author : William Fierman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110853388
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.