Ideology Politics And Language Policies

Author : Thomas Ricento
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299314

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Ideology, Politics and Language Policies by Thomas Ricento Pdf

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 : Ruth Wodak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224163

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Language, Power and Ideology by Ruth Wodak Pdf

The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral). This reader contains papers on a variety of topics, all related to each other through explicit discussions on the notion of ideology from an interdisciplinary approach with illustrative analyses of texts from the media, newspapers, schoolbooks, pamphlets, talkshows, speeches concerning language policy in Nazi-Germany, in Italofascism, and also policies prevalent nowadays. Among the interesting subjects studied are the jargon of the student movement of 1968, speeches of politicians, racist and sexist discourse, and the language of the green movement. Because of the enormous influence of the media nowadays, the explicit analysis of the mechanisms of “manipulation”, “suggestion”, and “persuasion” inherent in language or about language behaviour and strategies of discourse are of social relevance and of interest to all scholars of social sciences, to readers in all educational institutions, to analysts of political discourse, and to critical readers at large.

Author : Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen,Csilla Weninger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317803850

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Language, Ideology and Education by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen,Csilla Weninger Pdf

This book examines the role textbooks play in the teaching of dominant and non-dominant (first and foreign) languages in a range of cultural contexts worldwide. Each chapter addresses important issues related to what constitutes "legitimate knowledge", the politics of learning materials, global cultural awareness, competing ideologies, and the development of multilingual literacies. Language, Ideology and Education: The Politics of Textbooks in Language Education comprehensively surveys theoretical perspectives and methodological issues in the critical examination of language textbooks. In particular, it looks at: The Cultural Politics of Language Textbooks in the Era of Globalization The Politics of Instructional Materials for English for Young Learners Ideological Tensions and Contradictions in Lower Primary English Teaching Materials in Singapore Creating a Multilingual/multicultural Space in Japanese EFL: A Critical Analysis of Discursive Practices within a New Language Education Policy The book is primarily addressed to those who teach and research in the areas of Foreign Language Education, TESOL, Applied Linguistics, Language Policy, Critical Pedagogy, and Textual Cultures. Although the book is focused on textbook and materials analysis, rather than evaluation, most chapters discuss implications for curriculum design and materials development and therefore will be relevant to scholars working in those fields.

Author : Bambi B. Schieffelin,Kathryn A. Woolard,Paul V. Kroskrity
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195355611

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Language Ideologies by Bambi B. Schieffelin,Kathryn A. Woolard,Paul V. Kroskrity Pdf

"Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. Mediating between social structures and forms of talk, such ideologies are not only about language. Rather, they link language to identity, power, aesthetics, morality and epistemology. Through such linkages, language ideologies underpin not only linguistic form and use, but also significant social institutions and fundamental nottions of person and community. The essays in this new volume examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of societies around the world. Contributors focus on how such defining activity organizes language use as well as institutions such as religious ritual, gender relations, the nation-state, schooling, and law. Beginning with an introductory survey of language ideology as a field of inquiry, the volume is organized in three parts. Part I, "Scope and Force of Dominant Conceptions of Language," focuse on the propensity of cultural models of language developed in one social domain to affect linguistic and social behavior across domains. Part II, "Language Ideology in Institutions of Power," continues the examination of the force of specific language beliefs, but narrows the scope to the central role that language ideologies play in the functioning of particular institutions of power such as schooling, the law, or mass media. Part III, "Multiplicity and Contention among Ideologies," emphasizes the existence of variability, contradiction, and struggles among ideologies within any given society. This will be the first collection of work to appear in this rapidly growing field, which bridges linguistic and social theory. It will greatly interest linguistic anthropologists, social and cultural anthropologists, sociolinguists, historians, cultural studies, communications, and folklore scholars.

Author : Paul V. Kroskrity
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028610363

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Regimes of Language by Paul V. Kroskrity Pdf

In this text, ten linguistic anthropologists integrate two often segregated domains: politics and language. It addresses the role of language ideologies in state formation, nationalism and the maintenance of ethic groups, as well as the creation of national, ethnic and professional indentities.

Author : Ruth Wodak
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224132

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Language, Power and Ideology by Ruth Wodak Pdf

The topic of Language and Ideology has increasingly gained importance in the linguistic sciences. The general aim of critical linguistics is the exploration of the mechanisms of power which establish inequality, through the systematic analysis of political discourse (written or oral). This reader contains papers on a variety of topics, all related to each other through explicit discussions on the notion of ideology from an interdisciplinary approach with illustrative analyses of texts from the media, newspapers, schoolbooks, pamphlets, talkshows, speeches concerning language policy in Nazi-Germany, in Italofascism, and also policies prevalent nowadays. Among the interesting subjects studied are the jargon of the student movement of 1968, speeches of politicians, racist and sexist discourse, and the language of the green movement. Because of the enormous influence of the media nowadays, the explicit analysis of the mechanisms of manipulation, suggestion, and persuasion inherent in language or about language behaviour and strategies of discourse are of social relevance and of interest to all scholars of social sciences, to readers in all educational institutions, to analysts of political discourse, and to critical readers at large.

Author : Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783094264

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Language Ideology, Policy and Planning in Peru by Serafín M. Coronel-Molina Pdf

This book explores the role of language academies in preserving and revitalizing minority or endangered languages. The author studies the controversial High Academy of the Quechua Language (HAQL) in Peru, the efficacy of which has been questioned by some experts. The book delves into the positions, attitudes, ideologies and practices of the HAQL and the role it has played in language policy and planning in the Andean region. The author uses ethnographic fieldwork to support what was previously only anecdotal evidence from individuals viewing the Academy from the outside. This book would appeal to anyone studying the sociolinguistics of the Quechua language, as well as to those studying broader issues of Indigenous language policy and planning, maintenance and revitalization.

Author : Thomas Ricento
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218377

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Ideology, Politics, and Language Policies by Thomas Ricento Pdf

This title deals with the ideological implications of the spread of English. It examines why and how English became a pre-eminent language, and what this means for thousands of languages and speech communities large and small, throughout the world.

Author : John E. Joseph,Talbot J. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134741465

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Ideologies of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) by John E. Joseph,Talbot J. Taylor Pdf

Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this study objective and autonomous? One of the most cherished assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with claims of scientific objectivity and explanatory autonomy. Ideologies of Language counters these claims and assumptions by demonstrating not only their descriptive inaccuracy but also their conceptual incoherence.

Author : C. Mar-Molinero,P. Stevenson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230523883

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Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices by C. Mar-Molinero,P. Stevenson Pdf

The contributors to Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin language policy and the relationship between public policies and individual practices. Particular attention is given to Europe, where the impetus to social transformation within and across national boundaries is in renewed tension with conflicting national and supra-national interests, with these tensions reflected in the complex issues of language choice and language policy.

Author : Delombera Negga,Monika Szirmai,Daniel Chan
Publisher : Archives contemporaines
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782813002778

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Language Policy, Ideology and Educational Practices in a Globalised World by Delombera Negga,Monika Szirmai,Daniel Chan Pdf

The challenges posed by globalization for languages, policies and education form the basis of this collection of selected doubly-blind peer-reviewed articles, which have been put together following the 2014 PLIDAM conference on “Policies and Ideologies in Language Teaching: Actors and discourses”. The chapters collected in this volume revolve around the topic of globalization, which we understand to be a blend of ideas covered by at least four meanings: (1) internationalization, in reference to the growing interdependence and transactions between countries; (2) liberalization, which has to do with the forming of an ‘open’ and ‘borderless’ world economy; (3) universalization of certain phenomena around the world; and (4) westernization, with an emphasis on the influence of Western values (gender equality, freedom of speech and other ideas inspired by the West) over the rest of the world. The four broad themes that the chapters are organised into are (I) Policies in Language Teaching and Learning; (II) Language Policy, Ideology and Minority Languages; (III) Language Teaching and Learning across Cultures; (IV) Language Teaching and Learning with Technology. Contributing to the knowledge, discussion and debate about the impact that globalization has had on languages, policies and education in a wide variety of contexts, we hope that this book will be useful and informative to language researchers, policy makers and anyone with an interest in the intersecting field between languages, policies and education.

Author : Alexandra Mystra Jaffe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 3110164450

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Ideologies in Action by Alexandra Mystra Jaffe Pdf

In Ideologies in Action, Alexandra Jaffe explores the complex interrelationship between linguistic ideologies and practices on the French island of Corsica. This detailed exploration of the ideological and political underpinnings of three decades of language planning raises fundamental questions about what it means to "save" a minority language, and the way in which specific cultural, political, and ideological contexts shape the "success" and "failures" of linguistic engineering efforts. This book contributes to a growing literature on language ideology, and will be of interest to anthropologists, political scientists, and linguists interested in the practical and theoretical dimensions of language contact, minority language literacy, bilingual education, and language shift.

Author : Jan Blommaert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110808049

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Language Ideological Debates by Jan Blommaert Pdf

Author : Urszula Okulska,Piotr Cap
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206275

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Perspectives in Politics and Discourse by Urszula Okulska,Piotr Cap Pdf

The volume explores the vast and heterogeneous territory of Political Linguistics, structuring and developing its concepts, themes and methodologies into combined and coherent Analysis of Political Discourse (APD). Dealing with an extensive and representative variety of topics and domains - political rhetoric, mediatized communication, ideology, politics of language choice, etc. - it offers uniquely systematic, theoretically grounded insights in how language is used to perform power-enforcing/imbuing practices in social interaction, and how it is deployed for communicating decisions concerning language itself. The twenty chapters in the volume, written by specialists in political linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and social psychology, address the diversity of political discourse to propose novel perspectives from which common analytic procedures can be drawn and followed. The volume is thus an essential resource for anyone looking for a coherent research agenda in explorations of political discourse as a point of reference for their own academic activities, both scholarly and didactic. "Politics in today's world consists of almost continuous interconnected talking and writing in a constantly expanding media universe. This comprehensive collection of papers edited by Urszula Okulska and Piotr Cap helps readers to get a hold on the flow of discourse that constitutes politics today. Indispensible for anyone seeking perspectives for understanding the language of politics and research methods for probing beyond the surface."

Author : Sally Johnson,Tommaso M. Milani
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441182739

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Language Ideologies and Media Discourse by Sally Johnson,Tommaso M. Milani Pdf

The study of language ideologies has become a key theme in sociolinguistics over the past decade. It is the study of the relationship between representations of language, on the one hand, and broader aesthetic, economic, moral and political concerns, on the other. Research into the particular role played by media discourse in the construction, reproduction and contestation of such ideologies has been widely scattered - this book brings together this emerging field. It considers how, in an era of global communication technologies, the media - by which we understand the press, radio, television, cinema, the internet and multimodal gaming - help to disseminate preferred uses of, and ideas about, language. The book is tightly focussed on the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of that relationship. It also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon recent theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis. International in scope, this book will also be of interest to students from a wide range of fields including linguistics (particularly sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology), modern languages, education, media studies, communication studies and cultural theory.