9.1316, Books: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1316. Tue Sep 22 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1316, Books: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

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Date:  Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:13:52 +0200 (MEST)
From:  Christoph Eyrich <eyrich at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:  New Book: Sociolinguistics

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Date:  Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:13:52 +0200 (MEST)
From:  Christoph Eyrich <eyrich at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:  New Book: Sociolinguistics

		     Nirmala Srirekam PuruShotam

	       Negotiating Language, Constructing Race
		 Disciplining Difference in Singapore

                  1997. 23 x 15,5 cm. X, 294 pages
		  Cloth DM 178,-/approx. US$ 111.00
			  ISBN 3-11-015679-2
	    Contributions to the Sociology of Language 79

                Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York

This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the politics that took
its inspiration from, and control over, `ordinary' peoples
ethnicities and languages.

This rare, detailed social history shows how the Orientalist
construction of race and language in colonial Singapore was
transformed into a powerful practice of `nation' that remains today.
Thus, since the advent of nationalism, Singapore has been presented as
a multiracial social space.  This multiracial character has been
carefully re-constructed as constituted by four races, with mainly
four distinct languages.  With this policy, the ruling elite has
instituted a particular discourse about language, which almost always
implicates race.  Additionally, the discourse has also translated
itself into actual institutional practices, which `ordinary' men,
women and children cannot avoid, and must participate in.

Interspersed by the actual voices and experiences of common people,
caught within neo-Orientalists statist constructions, the study
provides another angle to the contemporary postmodern assurance that
difference is necessarily liberating.  Difference, instead, is shown
to have disciplinary consequences.  Yet the logic of dominant
discourses can, at the same time, be re-interpreted -- cleverly or
innocently - for enabling legitimate pressure upon the authorities.
As Everyday Life readings of state discourses importantly unfold
within the institution of the family, the often invisible role women
actually play with reference to language, race, and nation, is
importantly brought to the fore.

			       Contents

`Nation' and `Race': realms of problematic possibilities for language
* Race-ing language: the institutionalisation of `Chinese', `Malay',
and `Indian' in Singapore * Talk about language: from political
project to daily life positionings * Language on the life trajectory:
Everyday Life contexts, relevances and practices * The mother tongue:
male texts and female readings * Second language: official
bilingualism brought home * Disciplining difference * Notes *
References * Index
_______________________________________________________________________

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Blackwell Publishers
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Cambridge University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
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MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
	http://broca.mit.edu/mitwpl.web/WPLs.html
Mouton de Gruyter
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Oxford University Press
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Routledge
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Summer Institute of Linguistics
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Other Supporting Publishers:

Anthropological Linguistics
Cascadilla Press:
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Cassells
CSLI Publications:
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Finno-Ugrian Society
	http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj.sus
Francais Practique
	http://www.pratique.fr/
Lodz University, Department of English Language
Pacific Linguistics
Torino, Rosenberge & Sellier
Utrech Institute of Linguistics	

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