'Along the Routes to Power' : : Explorations of Empowerment through Language /

'Along the Routes to Power' : : Explorations of Empowerment through Language / / ed. by Martin Pütz, Joshua A. Fishman, JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer.

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The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19–22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of power and/or empowerment as observed in the st...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Aertselaer, Jo Anne Neff-van,
Aertselaer, JoAnne Neff-van,
Alexander, Neville,
Ammon, Ulrich,
Baker, Colin,
Batibo, Herman M.,
Beck, Rose Marie,
Bobda, Augustin Simo,
Brutt-Griffler, Janina,
Clyne, Michael,
Coulmas, Florian,
Djité, Paulin G.,
Edwards, John,
Ehrhart, Sabine,
Fishman, Joshua A.,
García, Ofelia,
Igboanusi, Herbert,
Legère, Karsten,
Mair, Christian,
Marten, Heiko F.,
Myers-Scotton, Carol,
Mühlhäusler, Peter,
Nyati-Ramahobo, Lydia,
Pütz, Martin,
Spolsky, Bernard,
Wolf, Hans-Georg,
HerausgeberIn:
Fishman, Joshua A.,
Neff-van Aertselaer, JoAnne,
Pütz, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2006
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 92
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Physical Description:1 online resource (426 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Along the routes to power
  • Section 1. Theoretical perspectives: Linguistic empowerment and language choices
  • Sociolinguistics: More power(s) to you! (On the explicit study of power in sociolinguistic research)
  • The power of language, the language of power
  • Language endangerment, the construction of indigenous languages and world English
  • The power to choose and its sociolinguistic implications
  • How codeswitching as an available option empowers bilinguals
  • Section 2. Language policy and language planning: Empowering speakers of minority languages in communities and institutions
  • Language policy failures
  • Empowerment through the community language – A challenge
  • Pidgins and Creoles between endangerment and empowerment: A dynamic view of empowerment in the growth and the decline of contact languages, especially in the Pacific
  • Lost in transculturation: The case of bilingual education in New York City
  • Language policies in Spain: Accommodation or alteration?
  • The potential of parliaments for the empowerment of linguistic minorities: Experiences from Scotland and Norway
  • The dominance of languages and language communities in the European Union (EU) and the consequences
  • Section 3. The language empowerment discourse: Case studies of language policy and language planning in Africa
  • Socio-political factors in the evolution of language policy in post-Apartheid South Africa
  • Marginalisation and empowerment through educational medium: The case of the linguistically disadvantaged groups of Botswana and Tanzania
  • Language policy, cultural rights and the law in Botswana
  • We speak Otjiherero but we write in English – Disempowerment through language use in participatory extension work
  • Empowerment through English – A realistic view of the educational promotion of English in postcolonial contexts: The case of Nigeria
  • Life in a Tower of Babel without a language policy
  • JK Nyerere of Tanzania and the empowerment of Swahili
  • Living on borrowed tongues? A view from within
  • Index

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