Disinventing and reconstituting languages

Disinventing and reconstituting languages

by Makoni, Sinfree Pennycook, Alastair

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Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, the authors argue that unless we change and reconstitute the ways in which languages are taught and conceptualized, language studies will not be able to improve the social welfare of language users.

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  • Full title :Disinventing and reconstituting languages / edited by Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook.

Summary

Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, the authors argue that unless we change and reconstitute the ways in which languages are taught and conceptualized, language studies will not be able to improve the social welfare of language users.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Multilingual Matters
  • Place of Publication:Clevedon
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xv, 249 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781853599255, 1853599255, 1280705388, 9781280705380, 9786610705382, 6610705380
  • DOI:10.21832/9781853599255
  • oclc:ocn560208513
  • LC Classification:P107
  • Dewey Decimal:400

Table of Contents

The Contributors; Foreword Intervening Discourses, Representations and Conceptualizations of Language; Chapter 1 Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages; Chapter 2 Then There were Languages: Bahasa Indonesia was One Among Many; Chapter 3 Critical Historiography: Does Language Planning in Africa Need a Construct of Language as Part of its Theoretical Apparatus?; Chapter 4 The Myth of English as an International Language; Chapter 5 Beyond 'Language': Linguistic Imperialism, Sign Languages and Linguistic Anthropology.

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Subjects

Bilingualism & multilingualism Langage et langues language (general communication) Language acquisition Language and languages LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy languages (study discipline) Literacy semantics Sémantique Sprachpolitik

Writers

Makoni, Sinfree Pennycook, Alastair

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