[PDF] Language Politics And Policies eBook

Author : Thomas Ricento
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108453141

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Tensions and conflicts related to linguistic identity and security are inevitable - even necessary - in liberal democracies. However, if conflicts related to language and identity negatively impact democratic participation, and lead to social fragmentation, civic withdrawal, and lack of trust in societal institutions, then the political system itself may become suspect and unstable. Written by experts from the fields of sociolinguistics, bilingual studies, political science/philosophy, and education, this volume provides a comprehensive picture of the current political, cultural and social factors impacting language policy in the United States and Canada. The chapters cover many aspects of social life in North America, such as immigration, bilingual education, heritage languages, and linguistic identity, and explore the challenges and set-backs, along with the many positive steps taken in recent years to advance the values of inclusion amidst diversity in a variety of contexts and domains in the United States and Canada.

Author : Nils Ringe
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472902733

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Multilingualism is an ever-present feature in political contexts around the world, including multilingual states and international organizations. Increasingly, consequential political decisions are negotiated between politicians who do not share a common native language. Nils Ringe uses the European Union to investigate how politicians’ reliance on shared foreign languages and translation services affects politics and policy-making. Ringe's research illustrates how multilingualism is an inherent and consequential feature of EU politics—that it depoliticizes policy-making by reducing its political nature and potential for conflict. An atmosphere with both foreign language use and a reliance on translation leads to communication that is simple, utilitarian, neutralized, and involves commonly shared phrases and expressions. Policymakers tend to disregard politically charged language and they are constrained in their ability to use vague or ambiguous language to gloss over disagreements by the need for consistency across languages.

Author : Thomas Ricento
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108429130

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Leading scholars in language policy examine the politics and policies of language in Canada and the United States.

Author : Thomas K. Ricento
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1998-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135681058

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Explores parallel and divergent developments in language policy and language rights in the U.S. and Canada, especially the past 4 decades, as a basis for reflection on what can be learned from one country's experience by the other.

Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137576472

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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 : Thomas Ricento
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2000-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027299315

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This volume critically examines the effects of the spread of English from colonialism to the ‘New World Order’. The research explores the complex and often contradictory roles English has played in national development. Historical analyses and case studies by leading researchers in language policy studies reveal that deterministic relationships between imperial languages, such as English, and societal hierarchies are untenable, and that support of vernacular languages in education and public life can serve diverse ideologies and political agendas. Areas and countries investigated include Europe, North America, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. The role of theory in language policy scholarship and practice is critically evaluated. A variety of research methodologies is used, ranging from macro-sociopolitical and structural analyses to postmodern approaches. The work collectively represents a new direction in language policy studies.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781902593821

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An indispensable guide through the work of the world's most influential living intellectual.

Author : Leigh Oakes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107143160

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This book proposes an integrated framework for investigating the ethics of language policy in liberal democracies in a global era.

Author : John E. Joseph
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2006-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748626972

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Language, this book argues, is political from top to bottom, whether considered at the level of an individual speaker's choice of language or style of discourse with others (where interpersonal politics are performed), or at the level of political rhetoric, or indeed all the way up to the formation of national languages. By bringing together this set of topics and highlighting how they are interrelated, the book will function well as a textbook on any applied or sociolinguistic course in which some or all of these various aspects of the politics of language are covered.

Author : Christina Späti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1782389431

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In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often fraught subject for most societies. The growing political salience of questions relating to language is evident not only in the expanded implementation of new policies and legislation, but also in heated public debates about national unity, collective identities, and the rights of linguistic minorities. By taking a comprehensive approach that considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America, the studies assembled here provide a sophisticated look at one of the global era’s defining political dynamics.