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9783110185997

Along the Routes to Power

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-06-30
  • Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

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This volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held in 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. It constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists who explore the interdisciplinary area of language and power. The papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language policy and language planning situations in multilingual settings, code switches, and associated topics. The fate of African minority languages and their speakers is of particular concern.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Along the routes to power xiii
Martin Pütz, Joshua A. Fishman and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer
Section 1. Theoretical perspectives: Linguistic empowerment and language choices
Sociolinguistics: More power(s) to you! (On the explicit study of power in sociolinguistic research)
3(10)
Joshua A. Fishman
The power of language, the language of power
13(22)
John Edwards
Language endangerment, the construction of indigenous languages and world English
35(20)
Janina Brutt-Griffler
The power to choose and its sociolinguistic implications
55(18)
Florian Coulmas
How codeswitching as an available option empowers bilinguals
73(14)
Carol Myers-Scotton
Section 2. Language policy and language planning: Empowering speakers of minority languages in communities and institutions
Language policy failures
87(20)
Bernard Spolsky
Empowerment through the community language – A challenge
107(22)
Michael Clyne
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
129(28)
Sabine Ehrhart, Christian Mair and Peter Mühlhäusler
Lost in transculturation: The case of bilingual education in New York City
157(22)
Ofelia Garcia
Language policies in Spain: Accomodation or alteration?
179(20)
JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer
The potential of parliaments for the empowerment of linguistic minorities: Experiences from Scotland and Norway
199(18)
Heiko F. Marten
The dominance of languages and language communities in the European Union (EU) and the consequences
217(24)
Ulrich Ammon
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
241(20)
Neville Alexander
Marginalisation and empowerment through educational medium: The case of the linguistically disadvantaged groups of Botswana and Tanzania
261(24)
Herman M. Batibo
Language policy, cultural rights and the law in Botswana
285(20)
Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo
We speak Otjiherero but we write in English – Disempowerment through language use in participatory extension work
305(28)
Rose Marie Beck
Empowerment through English – A realistic view of the educational promotion of English in post-colonial contexts: The case of Nigeria
333(24)
Hans-Georg Wolf and Herbert Igboanusi
Life in a Tower of Babel without a language policy
357(16)
Augustin Simo Bobda
JK Nyerere of Tanzania and the empowerment of Swahili
373(32)
Karsten Legère
Living on borrowed tongues? A view from within
405(16)
Paulin G. Djité
Index 421

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