Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages /

Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages / / ed. by Sinfree Makoni, Alastair Pennycook.

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This book questions assumptions about the nature of language and how language is conceptualized. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, from hip-hop in the US to education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book forcefully argues that a critique of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Branson, Jan,
Busch, Brigitta,
Canagarajah, Suresh,
García, Ofelia,
Heryanto, Ariel,
Lantolf, James P.,
Makoni, Sinfree,
Mashiri, Pedzisai,
Miller, Don,
Pennycook, Alastair,
Richardson, Elaine,
Schick, Jürgen,
Souza, Lynn Mario T. Menezes De,
Thorne, Steven L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Makoni, Sinfree,
Pennycook, Alastair,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Chapter 1. Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages
  • Chapter 2. Then There were Languages: Bahasa Indonesia was One Among Many
  • Chapter 3. Critical Historiography: Does Language Planning in Africa Need a Construct of Language as Part of its Theoretical Apparatus?
  • Chapter 4. The Myth of English as an International Language
  • Chapter 5. Beyond ‘Language’: Linguistic Imperialism, Sign Languages and Linguistic Anthropology
  • Chapter 6. Entering a Culture Quietly: Writing and Cultural Survival in Indigenous Education in Brazil
  • Chapter 7. A Linguistics of Communicative Activity
  • Chapter 8. (Dis)inventing Discourse: Examples from Black Culture and Hiphop Rap/ Discourse
  • Chapter 9 .Educational Materials Reflecting Heteroglossia: Disinventing Ethnolinguistic Differences in Bosnia- Herzegovina
  • Chapter 10. After Disinvention: Possibilities for Communication, Community and Competence
  • Index

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