Heritage Nationhood And Language

Author : Neriko Musha Doerr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317982630

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Heritage, Nationhood, and Language by Neriko Musha Doerr Pdf

The notion of "heritage" has become one of the global tropes in recent years. At the heart of heritage politics are three questions: what heritage is, who decides what it is, and for whom is the decision made. However, existing work on heritage language has rarely tackled these questions, assuming that teaching children of migrants their "heritage language" empowers them. This book challenges this assumption, situating the notion of heritage language in the host society’s involvement in social justice, nation-building efforts, (superficial) celebration of diversity, and investment on global links the migrants offer as well as the migrants’ fear of discrimination and desire for belonging, social status, and economic gain. Based on ethnographic research in Bolivia, Peru, the United States, and Japan, the book illuminates the complexity and political nature of determining what constitutes heritage language for migrants with connections to Japan. This volume opens up a new field of investigation in heritage language studies: the complex linkage between heritage language and social justice for migrants. This book was published as a special issue of Critical Asian Studies.

Author : Corinne A. Seals,Sheena Shah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317274049

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Heritage Language Policies around the World by Corinne A. Seals,Sheena Shah Pdf

Heritage language policies define the context in which heritage languages are maintained or abandoned by communities, and this volume describes and analyzes international policy strategies, as well as the implications for the actual heritage language speakers. This volume brings together heritage language policy case studies from around the world, foregrounding globalization by covering five regions: the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia. The countries profiled include the United States, Canada, Argentina, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Uganda, Namibia, Morocco, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. This volume also highlights an expanded definition of ‘heritage language’, choosing to focus on individual and community identities, and therefore including both Indigenous and immigrant languages. Focusing specifically on language policy relating to heritage languages, the chapters address key questions such as Are heritage languages included or excluded from the national language policy discourse? What are the successes and shortcomings of efforts to establish heritage language policies? What is the definition of ‘heritage language’ in official usage by the local/regional government and stakeholders? How are these language policies perceived by the actual heritage language communities?

Author : Neriko Doerr,Kiri Lee
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614512837

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Constructing the Heritage Language Learner by Neriko Doerr,Kiri Lee Pdf

Heritage language education is a relatively new field developed as "heritage" has become an important trope of belonging, legitimacy and commodification. Many recent studies treat the "heritage language learner" as an objective category. However, it is a social construct, whose meaning is contested by researchers, school administrators and the students themselves. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2007-2011 at a weekend Japanese language school in the United States, this monograph investigates the construction of the heritage language learner at the intersections of the knowledge-power complex, ideologies of language and national belonging, and politics of schooling. It examines the ways individuals become, resist and negotiate their new subjectivity as heritage language learners through becoming objects of study, being caught in nationalist aspirations and school politics regarding what to teach to whom, and negotiating with peers with various linguistic proficiency and family backgrounds. The volume proposes a new approach to view the notion of heritage language learner as a site of negotiation regarding the legitimate knowledge of language and ways of belonging, while offering practical suggestions for schools.

Author : Peter Pericles Trifonas,Themistoklis Aravossitas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education, Bilingual
ISBN : 1787852415

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Handbook of Research and Practice in Heritage Language Education by Peter Pericles Trifonas,Themistoklis Aravossitas Pdf

This book covers the multidimensional and international field of Heritage Language Education, including concepts, practices, and the correlation between culture and language from the perspectives of pedagogy and research.

Author : Terrence G. Wiley,Joy Kreeft Peyton,Donna Christian,Sarah Catherine K. Moore,Na Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136332494

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Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages in the United States by Terrence G. Wiley,Joy Kreeft Peyton,Donna Christian,Sarah Catherine K. Moore,Na Liu Pdf

Co-published by the Center for Applied Linguistics Timely and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art overview of major issues related to heritage, community, and Native American languages in the United States, based on the work of noted authorities, draws from a variety of perspectives—the speakers; use of the languages in the home, community, and wider society; patterns of acquisition, retention, loss, and revitalization of the languages; and specific education efforts devoted to developing stronger connections with and proficiency in them. Contributions on language use, programs and instruction, and policy focus on issues that are applicable to many heritage language contexts. Offering a foundational perspective for serious students of heritage, community, and Native American languages as they are learned in the classroom, transmitted across generations in families, and used in communities, the volume provides background on the history and current status of many languages in the linguistic mosaic of U.S. society and stresses the importance of drawing on these languages as societal, community, and individual resources, while also noting their strategic importance within the context of globalization.

Author : Fatme Myuhtar-May
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004272088

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Identity, Nationalism, and Cultural Heritage under Siege by Fatme Myuhtar-May Pdf

In Identity, Nationalism, and Cultural Heritage under Siege, Fatme Myuhtar-May makes a case for the recognition of Pomak heritage by presenting five stories from the past and present of the Rhodope Muslims in Bulgaria as examples of a distinct Pomak culture. The stories range from the Christianisation during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 and the forced communist renaming of the Pomaks in the 1970s, to their fascinating wedding rituals and historic figures. Each of the five narratives contains its own storyline and serves as a prominent example of Pomak heritage, from the author’s perspective. The stories take place in the context of fervent nationalism and the ongoing censorship of Pomakness based on the claim that it is an “ethnic Bulgarian,” not “Pomak” heritage.

Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui,Alamin M. Mazrui,Alamin Mazrui
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226514291

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The Power of Babel by Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui,Alamin M. Mazrui,Alamin Mazrui Pdf

Linguists estimate that there are currently nearly 2,000 languages in Africa, a staggering figure that is belied by the relatively few national languages. While African national politics, economics, and law are all conducted primarily in the colonial languages, the cultural life of the majority of citizens is conducted in a bewildering Babel of local and regional dialects, making language itself the center of debates over multiculturalism, gender studies, and social theory. In The Power of Babel, the noted Africanist scholar Ali Mazrui and linguist Alamin Mazrui explore this vast territory of African language. The Power of Babel is one of the first comprehensive studies of the complex linguistic constellations of Africa. It draws on Ali Mazrui's earlier work in its examination of the "triple heritage" of African culture, in which indigenous, Islamic, and Western traditions compete for influence. In bringing the idea of the triple heritage to language, the Mazruis unravel issues of power, culture, and modernity as they are embedded in African linguistic life. The first section of the book takes a global perspective, exploring such issues as the Eurocentrism of much linguistic scholarship on Africa; part two takes an African perspective on a variety of issues from the linguistically disadvantaged position of women in Africa to the relation of language policy and democratic development; the third section presents a set of regional studies, centering on the Swahili language's exemplification of the triple heritage.The Power of Babel unites empirical information with theories of nationalism and pluralism—among others—to offer the richest contextual account of African languages to date.

Author : David L. Hoyt,Karen Oslund
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0739109553

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The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context by David L. Hoyt,Karen Oslund Pdf

In an age of rising nationalism and expanding colonialism, the science of language has been intimately bound up with questions of immediate political concern. Taken together, the essays in this volume suggest that the emergence of language as an autonomous object of discourse was closely connected with the consolidation of new and sometimes competing forms of political community in the period following the French Revolution and the global spread of European power. This is the common thread running through the seven individual studies gathered here. By deliberately juxtaposing the European, academic configuration of modern linguistic research with the more practical, extra-European activities of missionaries, colonial officials, or East Asian literati, the authors explore the tensions between forms of linguistic knowledge generated in different geopolitical contexts, and suggest ways of thinking about the role of social science in the process of globalization.

Author : Ali A. Mazrui,Alamin M. Mazrui,Alamin Mazrui
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0226514285

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The Power of Babel by Ali A. Mazrui,Alamin M. Mazrui,Alamin Mazrui Pdf

Linguists estimate that there are currently nearly 2,000 languages in Africa, a staggering figure that is belied by the relatively few national languages. While African national politics, economics, and law are all conducted primarily in the colonial languages, the cultural life of the majority of citizens is conducted in a bewildering Babel of local and regional dialects, making language itself the center of debates over multiculturalism, gender studies, and social theory. In The Power of Babel, the noted Africanist scholar Ali Mazrui and linguist Alamin Mazrui explore this vast territory of African language. The Power of Babel is one of the first comprehensive studies of the complex linguistic constellations of Africa. It draws on Ali Mazrui's earlier work in its examination of the "triple heritage" of African culture, in which indigenous, Islamic, and Western traditions compete for influence. In bringing the idea of the triple heritage to language, the Mazruis unravel issues of power, culture, and modernity as they are embedded in African linguistic life. The first section of the book takes a global perspective, exploring such issues as the Eurocentrism of much linguistic scholarship on Africa; part two takes an African perspective on a variety of issues from the linguistically disadvantaged position of women in Africa to the relation of language policy and democratic development; the third section presents a set of regional studies, centering on the Swahili language's exemplification of the triple heritage.The Power of Babel unites empirical information with theories of nationalism and pluralism—among others—to offer the richest contextual account of African languages to date.

Author : Suzanne Aalberse,Ad Backus,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261762

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Heritage Languages by Suzanne Aalberse,Ad Backus,Pieter Muysken Pdf

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have received a lot of scholarly attention and provide a link between academic concerns and educational issues. This book takes a language contact perspective: we consider heritage languages from the perspective of their history, their structural properties, and their interaction with other surrounding languages.

Author : Ullrich Kockel,Philip McDermott, Liam Campbell
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643913579

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Per Scribendum, Sumus by Ullrich Kockel,Philip McDermott, Liam Campbell Pdf

Mair'ead Nic Craith's has sought to integrate critical heritage studies, cultural history, literature and folklore into a creative ethnology. Issues of community and place, memory and nostalgia are key themes in her work. The tensions around forms, definitions and uses of heritage are picked up in the contributions to this book. Research essays engage with the wide range of topics Mair'ead has explored. Other contributions note her support and mentoring or illustrate the author's appreciation of her work through prose, music and artistic representations. Ullrich Kockel teaches at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, the Latvian Academy of Culture and Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas. He is Emeritus Professor of Ethnology at Ulster University, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Mair'ead's anam cara.

Author : Joshua A. Fishman
Publisher : Rowley, Mass : Newbury House Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015046833813

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Language and Nationalism by Joshua A. Fishman Pdf

Author : Kē. En. Ō Dharmadāsa
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0472102885

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Language, Religion, and Ethnic Assertiveness by Kē. En. Ō Dharmadāsa Pdf

For nearly four decades, Sri Lanka has been the scene of an escalating ethnic conflict between the majority Sinhalese and the Tamils, who form the largest minority. Language, Religion, and Ethnic Assertiveness traces the development of Sinhalese nationalism by paying particular attention to the Sinhala language and how it relates to Sinhalese national identity. After Sri Lanka became independent from Great Britain in 1948, an official national language had to be chosen - either "Sinhala only" or "parity of status for Sinhala and Tamil". The victory of the "Sinhala only" proposition that won in the general election of 1956 started the antagonism between the Sinhalese and the Tamils that persists to this day. Using hitherto untapped primary sources, K. N. O. Dharmadasa delineates some of the peculiar features of the linkage between state, religion, and ethnicity in traditional Sinhalese society, providing insight into a tragic conflict that has a long and turbulent history. The book has much to offer historians, political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists of language and religion, as well as students and scholars of South Asia, postcolonialism, ethnicity, cultural identity, and conflict.

Author : Joy Kreeft Peyton,Donald Adam Ranard,Scott McGinnis
Publisher : Delta Publishing Company(IL)
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112646521

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Heritage Languages in America by Joy Kreeft Peyton,Donald Adam Ranard,Scott McGinnis Pdf

As a result of both immigration and birth patterns, the number of individuals in the United States who speak a language other than English is increasing dramatically. At the same time, there are tremendous needs in all areas of the workforce for individuals with proficiency in languages other than English.

Author : Xabier Irujo Ametzaga,Viola Miglio
Publisher : Center for Basque Studies Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : MINN:31951D039042028

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Language Rights and Cultural Diversity by Xabier Irujo Ametzaga,Viola Miglio Pdf

There are around 6,000 living languages in the world, but as of 2012, less than 4 percent of them can claim official status in one of more of the 196 existing states. This lack of official status, along with other cultural, political, and legal factors, is contributing to a worldwide loss of linguistic diversity and cultural richness. The essays in this book explore the many facets of language rights and language protection from a variety of theoretical, legal, and academic perspectives. Important lessons are taken from the Basque case in Europe, and Native American and French-Canadian cases in North America. Woven throughout the book is the belief in the power of discourse and research to protect and even enhance linguistic diversity through legal recognition and other means. Language protection, however, is only possible if we encourage the acceptance of cultural diversity and multilingualism as a positive outcome for the whole population of the state, not just for a minority with in it. We should abandon the idea of the monolingual mono-cultural nation-state, and encourage the population of each country to adopt the concept of a multi-cultural state.