Along the routes to power : explorations of empowerment through language

Along the routes to power : explorations of empowerment through language / edited by Martin Pütz, Joshua A. Fishman, JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer.

This volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held in 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. It constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists who explore the interdisciplinary area of language and power. The papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic...

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Other Authors: Pütz, Martin, 1955-, Fishman, Joshua A., Neff-van Aertselaer, JoAnne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Series:Contributions to the sociology of language ; 92.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics.
Sociolinguistics > Africa.
Power (Social sciences)
Language policy.
Language planning.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Language planning
Language policy
Sociolinguistics
Soziolinguistik
Macht
Taalpolitiek.
Taal.
Macht.
Africa
Afrika.
Landau <Pfalz, 2004>
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction : along the routes to power / Joshua A. Fishman / Martin Putz / JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer
  • Sect. 1 Theoretical perspectives : linguistic empowerment and language choices
  • Sociolinguistics : more power(s) to you! (on the explicit study of power in sociolinguistic research) / Joshua A. Fishman
  • power of language, the language of power / John Edwards
  • Language endangerment, the construction of indigenous languages and world English / Janina Brutt-Griffler
  • power to choose and its sociolinguistic implications / Florian Coulmas
  • How codeswitching as an available option empowers bilinguals / Carol Myers-Scotton
  • Sect. 2 Language policy and language planning : empowering speakers of minority languages in communities and institutions
  • Language policy failures / Bernard Spolsky
  • Empowerment through the community language
  • a challenge / Michael Clyne
  • Pidgins and Creoles between endangerment and empowerment : a dynamic view of empowerment in the growth and the decline of contact languages, especially in the Pacific / Christian Mair / Sabine Ehrhart / Peter Muhlhausler
  • Lost in transculturation : the case of bilingual education in New York City / Ofelia Garcia
  • Language policies in Spain : accommodation or alteration? / JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer
  • Potential of parliaments for the empowerment of linguistic minorities : experiences from Scotland and Norway / Heiko F. Marten
  • Dominance of languages and language communities in the European Union (EU) and the consequences / Ulrich Ammon
  • Sect. 3 Language empowerment discourse : case studies of language policy and language planning in Africa
  • Socio-political factors in the evolution of language policy in post-Apartheid South Africa / Neville Alexander
  • Marginalisation and empowerment through educational medium : the case of the linguistically disadvantaged groups of Botswana and Tanzania / Herman M. Batibo
  • Language policy, cultural rights and the law in Botswana / Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo
  • We speak Otjiherero but we write in English
  • disempowerment through language use in participatory extension work / Rose Marie Beck
  • Empowerment through English
  • a realistic view of the education promotion of English in post-colonial contexts : the case of Nigeria / Hans-Georg Wolf / Herbert Igboanusi
  • Life in a Tower of Babel without a language policy / Augustin Simo Bobda
  • JK Nyerere of Tanzania and the empowerment of Swahili / Karsten Legere.

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