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Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages

Engelsk Paperback

Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages

Engelsk Paperback
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This book questions assumptions about the nature of language and how language is conceptualized. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, from hip-hop in the US to education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book forcefully argues that a critique of common linguistic and metalinguistic suppositions is not only a conceptual but also a sociopolitical necessity. Just as many notions of language are highly suspect, so too are many related concepts premised on a notion of discrete languages, such as language rights, mother tongues, multilingualism, or code-switching. Definitions of language in language policies, education and assessment have material and often harmful consequences for people. Unless we actively engage with the history of invention of languages in order to radically 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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This book questions assumptions about the nature of language and how language is conceptualized. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, from hip-hop in the US to education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book forcefully argues that a critique of common linguistic and metalinguistic suppositions is not only a conceptual but also a sociopolitical necessity. Just as many notions of language are highly suspect, so too are many related concepts premised on a notion of discrete languages, such as language rights, mother tongues, multilingualism, or code-switching. Definitions of language in language policies, education and assessment have material and often harmful consequences for people. Unless we actively engage with the history of invention of languages in order to radically 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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781853599231
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1853599239
Kategori: Sprogtilegnelse
Udg. Dato: 11 nov 2006
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 147mm
Højde: 210mm
Forlag: Channel View Publications Ltd
Oplagsdato: 11 nov 2006
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Kategori Sprogtilegnelse


ISBN-13 9781853599231


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 16mm


Bredde 147mm


Højde 210mm


Udg. Dato 11 nov 2006


Oplagsdato 11 nov 2006


Forlag Channel View Publications Ltd

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