TheMultilingual Citizen : : Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change /

TheMultilingual Citizen : : Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change / / ed. by Lisa Lim, Christopher Stroud, Lionel Wee.

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 voic...

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MitwirkendeR:
Ansaldo, Umberto,
Bruthiaux, Paul,
Cabral, Estêvão,
Chiatoh, Blasius A.,
Chimbutane, Feliciano,
Deumert, Ana,
Heugh, Kathleen,
Jonsson, Rickard,
Kamwendo, Gregory,
Kerfoot, Caroline,
Lim, Lisa,
Martin-Jones, Marilyn,
May, Stephen,
Milani, Tommaso M.,
Premsrirat, Suwilai,
Stroud, Christopher,
Wee, Lionel,
HerausgeberIn:
Lim, Lisa,
Stroud, Christopher,
Wee, Lionel,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Encounters
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Language Rights and Linguistic Citizenship
  • 1. Linguistic Citizenship
  • 2. Essentialism and Language Rights
  • 3. Commentary – Unanswered Questions: Addressing the Inequalities of Majoritarian Language Policies
  • Part 2: Educating for Linguistic Citizenship
  • 4. Affirming Linguistic Rights, Fostering Linguistic Citizenship: A Cameroonian Perspective
  • 5. Education and Citizenship in Mozambique: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives
  • 6. Paths to Multilingualism? Refl ections on Developments in Language-in-Education Policy and Practice in East-Timor
  • 7. Language Rights and Thainess: Community-based Bilingual Education is the Key
  • 8. Commentary - Linguistic Citizenship: Who Decides Whose Languages, Ideologies and Vocabulary Matter?
  • Part 3: Linguistic Citizenship in Resistance and Participation
  • 9. Citizenship Theory and Fieldwork Practice in Sri Lanka Malay Communities
  • 10. Linguistic Citizenship in Sweden: (De)Constructing Languages in a Context of Linguistic Human Rights
  • 11. Linguistic Citizenship in Post-Banda Malawi: A Focus on the Public Radio and Primary Education
  • 12. Making and Shaping Participatory Spaces: Resemiotization and Citizenship Agency in South Africa
  • 13. Commentary - On Participation and Resistance
  • Index

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