Language And Citizenship

Author : Norman Berdichevsky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786427000

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Nations, Language and Citizenship by Norman Berdichevsky Pdf

This study evaluates the importance of language in achieving a sense of national solidarity, considering factors such as territory, religion, race, historical continuity, and memory. It investigates the historical experiences of countries and ethnic or regional minorities according to how their political leadership, intellectual elite, or independence movements answered the question, “Who are we?” The Americans, British, and Australians all speak English, just as the French, Haitians, and French-Canadians all speak French, sharing common historical origin, vocabulary and usage—but each nationality’s use of its language differs. So does language transform a citizenry into a community / or is a “national language” the product of idealogy? This work presents 26 case studies and raises three questions: whether the people of independent countries consider language the most important factor in creating their sense of nationality; whether the people living in multi-ethnic states or as regional minorities are most loyal to the community with which they share a language or the community with which they share citizenship; and whether people in countries with civil strife find a common language enough to create a sense of political solidarity. The study also covers hybrid languages, language revivals, the difference between dialects and languages, government efforts to promote or avoid bilingualism, the manipulation of spelling and alphabet reform. Illustrations include postage stamps, banknotes, flags, and posters illustrating language controversies. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Tommaso M. Milani
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265166

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Language and Citizenship by Tommaso M. Milani Pdf

This volume offers fresh, cutting-edge perspectives on issues of language and citizenship by casting a critical light on a broad spectrum of geo-political contexts – Flanders, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, the UK - and discourse data – policy documents, newspaper articles, ethnographic notes and interviews, skits, bodies in protests. The main aims of the book are to investigate institutional discourses about the relationship between nationality and citizenship, and relate such discourses to more ethnographically grounded interactions; tease out the multiple and often conflicting meanings of citizenship; and explore the different linguistic/semiotic guises that citizenship might take on in different contexts. The book argues that the linguistic/discursive study of citizenship should not only include critical investigations of political proposals about language testing, but should also encompass the diverse, more or less mundane, ways in which various social actors enact citizenship with the help of an array of multivocal, material, and affective semiotic resources. Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015).

Author : Lisa Lim,Christopher Stroud,Lionel Wee
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783099672

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The Multilingual Citizen by Lisa Lim,Christopher Stroud,Lionel Wee Pdf

In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to support. The chapters discuss issues of decoloniality and multilingualism in the global South, and together retheorize how to accommodate diversity in complexly multilingual/ multicultural societies. Offering a framework anchored in transformative notions of democratic and reflexive citizenship, it prompts readers to critically rethink how existing contemporary frameworks such as Linguistic Human Rights rest on disempowering forms of multilingualism that channel discourses of diversity into specific predetermined cultural and linguistic identities.

Author : Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136503177

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Language and Citizenship in Japan by Nanette Gottlieb Pdf

The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: ‘Japanese citizenship’ means ‘Japanese ethnicity,’ which in turn means ‘Japanese as one’s first language.’ Historically, most non-Japanese who have chosen to take out citizenship have been members of the ‘oldcomer’ Chinese and Korean communities, born and raised in Japan. But this is changing: the last three decades have seen an influx of ‘newcomer’ economic migrants from a wide range of countries, many of whom choose to stay. The likelihood that they will apply for citizenship, to access the benefits it confers, means that citizenship and ethnicity can no longer be assumed to be synonyms in Japan. This is an important change for national discourse on cohesive communities. This book’s chapters discuss discourses, educational practices, and local linguistic practices which call into question the accepted view of the language-citizenship nexus in lived contexts of both existing Japanese citizens and potential future citizens. Through an examination of key themes relating both to newcomers and to an older group of citizens whose language practices have been shaped by historical forces, these essays highlight the fluid relationship of language and citizenship in the Japanese context.

Author : Vaidehi Ramanathan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783090211

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Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship by Vaidehi Ramanathan Pdf

This volume explores the concept of 'citizenship', and argues that it should be understood both as a process of becoming and the ability to participate fully, rather than as a status that can be inherited, acquired, or achieved. From a courtroom in Bulawayo to a nursery in Birmingham, the authors use local contexts to foreground how the vulnerable, particularly those from minority language backgrounds, continue to be excluded, whilst offering a powerful demonstration of the potential for change offered by individual agency, resistance and struggle. In addressing questions such as 'under what local conditions does "dis-citizenship" happen?'; 'what role do language policies and pedagogic practices play?' and 'what kinds of margins and borders keep humans from fully participating'? The chapters in this volume shift the debate away from visas and passports to more uncertain and contested spaces of interpretation.

Author : Amy Dunham Strand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135851576

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Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919 by Amy Dunham Strand Pdf

Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by 19th-century sociopolitical transformations. Together with popular commentary about language in Congressional records, periodicals, grammar books, etiquette manuals, and educational materials, literary products tell stories about how gendered discussions of language worked to deflect nationally divisive debates over Indian Removal and slavery, to stabilize mid-19th-century sociopolitical mobility, to illuminate the logic of Jim Crow, and to temper the rise of "New Women" and "New Immigrants" at the end and turn of the 19th century. Strand enhances our understandings of how ideologies of language, gender, and nation have been interarticulated in American history and culture and how American literature has been entwined in their construction, reflection, and dissemination.

Author : Engin F. Isin,Greg M. Nielsen
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848135987

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Acts of Citizenship by Engin F. Isin,Greg M. Nielsen Pdf

This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. They claim that such an act involves both responsibility and answerability, but is ultimately irreducible to either. This study of citizenship is truly interdisciplinary, drawing not only on new developments in politics, sociology, geography and anthropology, but also on psychoanalysis, philosophy and history. Ranging from Antigone and Socrates in the ancient world to checkpoints, euthanasia and flash mobs in the modern one, the 'acts' and chapters here build up a dynamic and wide-ranging picture. Acts of Citizenship provides important new insights for all those concerned with the relationship between individuals, groups and polities.

Author : L. Oakes,J. Warren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230625495

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Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec by L. Oakes,J. Warren Pdf

Globalization is calling for new conceptualizations of belonging within culturally diverse communities. Quebec, driven by the pressures of maintaining Francophone identity and accommodating migrant groups, provides a fascinating case study of how to foster a sense of belonging.

Author : Eleni Grivas,Vasilios Zorbas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 1536126799

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Multicultural and Citizenship Awareness Through Language by Eleni Grivas,Vasilios Zorbas Pdf

This book offers a theoretical backdrop on issues related to multicultural education and intercultural approaches to language pedagogy as well as a wide repertoire of educational practices for developing intercultural awareness and communication along with the enhancement of second/foreign language skills development. Considering the growing multicultural nature of education as well as the development of cultural knowledge, intercultural awareness constitutes a significant parameter in promoting effective communication and mutual understanding, leading to social inclusion beyond the classroom boundaries. These cultural dimensions stress the need for teachers to adopt effective practices (in the foreign language classroom) that blend intercultural knowledge and understanding, and enable students to identify themselves, understand others, and use a foreign language to convey and create a cultural reality. It provides a space to academics, researchers and practitioners to present studies and projects that create an environment of interculturality in foreign language classrooms, in an attempt to open students' minds towards the acceptance of cultural otherness. This book does not pretend to be a work about theory; the authors do not, for example, delve into the complexities of the relationship between language, culture and globalization. The focus is on the manner with which teachers perceive the cultural dimension of foreign language teaching and learning as well as their students knowledge of and attitudes toward the target language countries, including their reflections on their own teaching practices. The contributors of this book report and reflect on practices that heighten students multicultural sensitivity and intercultural awareness, and are relevant to a range of stakeholders. They also discuss challenges of cross-curricular and CLIL applications in diverse contexts based on playful activities and stories that make students know and apply the culturally appropriate behaviour that goes with a second/foreign language. The book consists of a selection of thirteen chapters that comprise eleven studies conducted by the two authors, Eleni Griva and Vasilios Zorbas, in collaboration with some researchers. Moreover, two colleagues, who are experts in the field of multiculturalism and intercultural communication, were invited to submit a chapter for this book, which is divided into three parts: The first part, consisting of four chapters, focuses on multicultural education issues. The second part, consisting of six chapters, discusses the role of play in multicultural awareness/ intercultural communication and second/foreign language development. The third part, consisting of three chapters, centers on aspects and considerations of the CLIL and multicultural/citizenship awareness.

Author : Audrey Osler,Hugh Starkey
Publisher : Trentham Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 1858563348

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Citizenship and Language Learning by Audrey Osler,Hugh Starkey Pdf

This volume is the result of a British Council seminar on language and citizenship ...

Author : Quentin Williams,Ana Deumert,Tommaso M. Milani
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800415331

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Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship by Quentin Williams,Ana Deumert,Tommaso M. Milani Pdf

This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies. The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and radical social transformations in democracies in the north and south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics. Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.

Author : Michael Byram
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847698834

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From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship by Michael Byram Pdf

This collection of essays and reflections starts from an analysis of the purposes of foreign language teaching and argues that this should include educational objectives which are ultimately similar to those of education for citizenship. It does so by a journey through reflections on what is possible and desirable in the classroom and how language teaching has a specific role in education systems which have long had, and often still have, the purpose of encouraging young people to identify with the nation-state. Foreign language education can break through this framework to introduce a critical internationalism. In a ‘globalised’ and ‘internationalised’ world, the importance of identification with people beyond the national borders is crucial. Combined with education for citizenship, foreign language education can offer an education for ‘intercultural citizenship’.

Author : Tommaso M. Milani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:925491164

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Language & Citizenship by Tommaso M. Milani Pdf

Author : Juan C. Guerra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 0415722780

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Language, Culture, Identity and Citizenship in College Classrooms and Communities by Juan C. Guerra Pdf

Juan C. Guerra presents a conceptual framework--writing across difference--that acknowledges the linguistic, cultural, and semiotic resources students use in their communities of belonging, encourages them to call on these in the course of learning what they are being taught in the writing classroom, and engages them in navigating the civic, political, social, and cultural spheres they inhabit.

Author : Ariel Loring,Vaidehi Ramanathan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783095179

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Language, Immigration and Naturalization by Ariel Loring,Vaidehi Ramanathan Pdf

This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization including governmental processes, the language of citizenship tests and classes, the labelling and lived experiences of immigrants/outsiders and the media’s interpretation of this process. The book brings together scholars from a wide range of specialities who accentuate language and raise issues that often remain unarticulated or masked in the media. The contributors highlight how governmental policies and practices affect native-born citizens and residents differently on the basis of legal status. Furthermore, the authors observe that many issues that are typically seen as affecting immigrants (such as language policies, nationalist identities and feelings of belonging) also impact first-generation native-born citizens who are seen as, or see themselves as, outsiders.