Language Conflict And National Development

Author : Jyotirindra Das Gupta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 309 pages
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Release : 2024-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520377998

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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 : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Lamguage planning
ISBN : OCLC:164621921

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Author : Jyotirindra Das Gupta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520414709

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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 : Carol L. Schmid Professor of Sociology Guilford Technical Community College
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Sajal Nag
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Alyssa Ayres
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521519311

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Speaking Like a State by Alyssa Ayres Pdf

This text examines language and culture's importance to political legitimacy using the example of Pakistan, in comparison with India and Indonesia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202596

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Alternative Indias by Anonim Pdf

The debate over whether religious or secular identities provide the most viable model for a wider national identity has been a continuous feature of Indian politics from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Moreover, in the last thirty years the increasingly communal articulation of popular politics and the gradual rise of a constellation of Hindu nationalist parties headed by the BJP has increased the urgency of this debate. While Indian writing in English has fostered a long tradition of political dissent, and has repeatedly questioned ethnocentric, culturally exclusive forms of political identification, few critics have considered how this literature engages directly with communalism, or charted the literary-political response to key events such as the Babri Masjid / Ramjanmabhumi affair and the recent growth of popular forms of Hindu nationalism. The essays collected in Alternative Indias break new ground in studies of Indian literature and film by discussing how key authors offer contending, ‘alternative’ visions of India and how poetry, fiction and film can revise both the communal and secular versions of national belonging that define current debates about ‘Indianness’. Including contributions from international scholars distinguished in the field of South Asian literary studies, and featuring an informative introduction charting the parallel developments of writing, the nation and communal consciousness, Alternative Indias offers a fresh perspective on the connections and discontinuities between culture and politics in the world’s biggest democracy.

Author : Aishwarya Pandit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000410679

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Claiming Citizenship and Nation by Aishwarya Pandit Pdf

The book provides insight into the changing nature of Muslim politics and the ideas of citizenship in independent India. It studies the electoral mobilization of minority groups across North India, particularly in Uttar Pradesh where Muslims have been demographically dominant in various constituencies. The volume discusses themes such as the making and unmaking of the ‘Congress heartland’ and the threat of revival of ‘Muslim communalism’, alongside issues of representation, property, language politics, rehabilitation and citizenship, politics of Waqf, personal law and Hindu counter-mobilization. The author utilizes previously unused government and institutional files, private archives, interviews and oral resources to address questions central to Indian politics and society. An important intervention, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of politics, Indian history, minority studies, law, political studies, nationalism, electoral politics, partition studies, political sociology, sociology and South Asian Studies.

Author : Vennelakaṇṭi Prakāśaṃ
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 8184242794

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Encyclopaedia of the Linguistic Sciences by Vennelakaṇṭi Prakāśaṃ Pdf

Author : Paul R. Brass
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Group identity
ISBN : 9780595343942

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Language, Religion and Politics in North India by Paul R. Brass Pdf

This book is recognized as a classic study both of the politics of language and religion in India and of ethnic and nationalist movements in general. It received overwhelmingly favorable reviews across disciplinary and international boundaries at first publication, characterized as "a masterly conceptual analysis of language, religion, ethnic groups, and nationhood", "a monumental work", "of interest to all political scientists", one that "should be required reading for any politically concerned person" in the United Kingdom (from a TLS review), a work whose "value and importance can scarcely be overstated", with "no competitor in the same class".

Author : Michele Gazzola,François Grin,Linda Cardinal,Kathleen Heugh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429828928

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The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning by Michele Gazzola,François Grin,Linda Cardinal,Kathleen Heugh Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning is a comprehensive and authoritative survey, including original contributions from leading senior scholars and rising stars to provide a basis for future research in language policy and planning in international, national, regional, and local contexts. The Handbook approaches language policy as public policy that can be studied through the policy cycle framework. It offers a systematic and research-informed view of actual processes and methods of design, implementation, and evaluation. With a substantial introduction, 38 chapters and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all decision makers, students, and researchers of language policy and planning within linguistics and cognate disciplines such as public policy, economics, political science, sociology, and education.

Author : Martin Pütz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : 53,8 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.