Language Conflict And National Development

Author : Jyotirindra Das Gupta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520377998

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Language Conflict and National Development by Jyotirindra Das Gupta Pdf

This is the first systematic study of language conflict in a developing society and of its consequences for the integrational processes of nation building. Jyotirindra Das Gupta maintains that language rivalry does not necessarily impede national integration, but can actually contribute to the development of a national community. He explains that the existence of a multiplicity of language groups in a segmented society is not, in itself, indicative of the prospects for successful integration. Only when language groups mobilize into political interest groups is it possible to determine the pattern of intergroup conflict likely to emerge. The way in which this conflict is handled and resolved depends upon the general political atmosphere and upon the type of institutions available for decision making. In the specific case of India, the author finds that because the Indian government has proved capable of meeting the demands of diverse language interests, it is supported by the Indian population as a whole for its role in mediating language rivalries. This book therefore offers evidence for the efficacy of democratic procedures for political development and integration. In the course of his analysis, Das Gupta discusses the impact of Indian language associations on national politics and on the political community in general; the formulation and implementation of a national language policy; and the language policies of nationalist and of separatist groups both before and since Independence. In order to place the Indian experience in a wider context he provides comparative empirical data from other countries. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Author : Jyoti Rindra Das Gupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Lamguage planning
ISBN : OCLC:164621921

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Language conflict and national development by Jyoti Rindra Das Gupta Pdf

Author : Carol L. Schmid Professor of Sociology Guilford Technical Community College
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195350210

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The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective by Carol L. Schmid Professor of Sociology Guilford Technical Community College Pdf

Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host to more bilingual people than any other country in the world. Language is more than a means of communication. It brings into play an entire range of experiences and attitudes toward life. Furthermore, language is a potent symbolic issue because it links power and political claims of ownership with psychological demands for group worth. How people belonging to different language and cultural communities live together in the same political community and how political and structural tensions arise to divide them along language lines, are questions addressed in The Politics of Language. This book analyzes the historical background and recent controversy over language in the United States and compares it to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. It's accessibility as a survey of this topic makes it ideal for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology.

Author : Sajal Nag
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000810448

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Nation and Its Modes of Oppressions in South Asia by Sajal Nag Pdf

This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia. It studies the emergence of nationalism in modern states as a powerful, omnipotent, and omnipresent form of political identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book examines the idea of a nation, as it originated in medieval Europe, as an unending process of 'othering' individuals, groups, and communities to establish its hegemony, exclusivity, and absolute power within a political discourse. It sheds light on how these new political frameworks in the name of nationalism resulted in conflicts and bloodshed. It unleashed politics of retribution and facilitated majoritarianism, minority persecution, and collective authoritarianism which devastated individuals and collectivities. Further, the author also discusses various prominent ideas and contemporary theories on nationalism alongside pivotal socio-cultural factors which have significantly shaped the formation of modern nation states and their politics. Topical and nuanced, this book will be indispensable to researchers, scholars, and readers interested in nationalism, political science, modern history, political theory, political philosophy, political sociology, political history, post-colonial studies, and South Asia studies.

Author : Braj Kachru
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441157782

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Collected Works of Braj B. Kachru by Braj Kachru Pdf

Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews. The third volume of these Collected Works details Kachru's key studies from the 19070s to 1990s in the areas of linguistics, multilingualism and language contact, including some of his work on language in India and South Asia.

Author : William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107022096

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Language Conflict and Language Rights by William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky Pdf

An overview of language rights issues and language conflicts with detailed examination of many cases past and present around the world.

Author : Martin Pütz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285775

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Language Contact and Language Conflict by Martin Pütz Pdf

The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.A.U.D. (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg) Symposium held at the University of Duisburg on 23-27 March 1992. The 13 papers in this book focus on problems and issues of intercultural communication. The first part is devoted to theoretical aspects related to the interaction of language and culture and deals with the issue from anthropological, cognitive, and linguistic points of view. Part II raises issues of language policy and language planning such as the manipulation of language in intercultural contact; it includes case studies pertaining to multilingual settings, for example in Africa, Australia, Melanesia, and Europe. The volume opens with a foreword by Dell H. Hymes.

Author : Denis Kisembe
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783668757233

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Language, culture and conflict resolution. A case of Kiswahili as a unifying language in Kenya by Denis Kisembe Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject Communications - Specialized communication, Moi University (education), course: m-ed, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show that a common language is one of the most important features of a diverse community. Human communication is based on features that describe an event and capture emotions, needs, interests and fears. Language is used to resolve or escalate dispute. Opara (2016) asserted that People from different culture and social units perceive the world through the lens provided by their distinctive languages. Meaning that language provides a repertoire of words that name the categories into which the language users have divided their world. In fact, definitions of words are linguistically, culturally and contextually bound. Words carry meanings that make sense to members of a shared social environment. Conflict resolution relies heavily on word choices. Here language is key to dispute resolution because it is the words human beings in the world use as an accelerator to harmonious living or existential war fronts. There is an assumption in Kenya that conflict is best resolved when people can speak in one “nativity”, for instance, the kikuyu when faced with conflict can best sort out the issue in their native language because of the semiotics of the conflict. There is linguistic consistency where all the words used add value to the discourse. The researcher posits that in a country like Kenya, were national conflicts build from local dialectics, Kiswahili can be the unifying factor and a conflict resolution tool. Kiswahili as a trade language in Eastern Africa does accommodate the diversity of culture and language use. The paper explores the strengths of Kiswahili language in intercultural conflict resolution, and emphasizes the need to consider the uses of the language in national and transnational conflict resolution.

Author : Eric Taylor Woods,Robert S. Schertzer,Eric Kaufmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135708597

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Nationalism and Conflict Management by Eric Taylor Woods,Robert S. Schertzer,Eric Kaufmann Pdf

Ethno-national conflict is one of the central issues of modern politics. Despite the emergence of approaches to managing it, from nation-building to territorial autonomy, in recent years, the application of these approaches has been uneven. Old conflicts persist and new ones continually emerge. The authors of this book contend that what is needed to drive forward the theory and practice of ethno-national conflict management is a more nuanced understanding of ethnicity and nationalism. The book addresses this issue by linking theories of ethnicity and nationalism to theories of conflict management. Its contributors share a common goal of demonstrating that a nuanced understanding of ethnicity and nationalism can beneficially inform conflict management in theory and practice. To do so, they analyse both hot and cold conflict zones, as well as cases that have been important in the development of the most widely-used conflict management models. The book is aimed at those interested in the theory and practice of ethno-national conflict management as well as the study of ethnicity and nationalism. It is well-suited for undergraduate and advanced research students, experts and policy-makers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.

Author : Lee Hock Guan,Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812304827

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Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia by Lee Hock Guan,Leo Suryadinata Pdf

Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

Author : National Institute of Education (India)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065110144

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N.I.E. Journal by National Institute of Education (India) Pdf

Author : Mohamed Benrabah
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847699657

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Language Conflict in Algeria by Mohamed Benrabah Pdf

This book presents a detailed survey of language attitudes, conflicts and policies over the period from 1830, when the French occupied Algeria, up to 2012, the year this country celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence. It traces the evolution of language planning policies and reactions to them in both the colonial and post-colonial eras.

Author : Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Applied linguistics
ISBN : 0883772582

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Language and Language-in-education Policy by Robert B. Kaplan Pdf

Author : Birgit Brock-Utne,Gunnar Garbo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789987081462

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Language and Power. The Implications of Language for Peace and Development by Birgit Brock-Utne,Gunnar Garbo Pdf

Language is a tool used to express thoughts, to hide thoughts or to hide lack of thoughts. It is often a means of domination. The question is who has the power to define the world around us. This book demonstrates how language is being manipulated to form the minds of listeners or readers. Innocent words may be used to conceal a reality which people would have reacted to had the phenomena been described in a straightforward manner. The nice and innocent concept "cost sharing", which leads our thoughts to communal sharing and solidarity, may actually imply privatization. The false belief that the best way to learn a foreign language is to have it as a language of instruction actually becomes a strategy for stupidification of African pupils. In this book 33 independent experts from 16 countries in the North and the South show how language may be used to legitimize war-making, promote Northern interests in the field of development and retain colonial speech as languages of instruction, languages of the courts and in politics. The book has been edited by two Norwegians: Birgit Brock-Utne is a professor at the University of Oslo and a consultant in education and development. From 1987 until 1992 she was a professor at the University of Dar es Salaam. Gunnar Garbo, author and journalist and former member of the Norwegian Parliament, was the Norwegian Ambassador to Tanzania from 1987 to 1992.

Author : Peter H. Nelde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : UCAL:B3738379

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Language Conflict and Minorities by Peter H. Nelde Pdf