31.900, Books: The Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Davis

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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:00:43
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: The Struggle for a Multilingual Future: Davis

 


Title: The Struggle for a Multilingual Future 
Subtitle: Youth and Education in Sri Lanka 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-struggle-for-a-multilingual-future-9780190947477?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Christina P. Davis

Paperback: ISBN:  9780190947477 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 39.95


Abstract:

In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the
tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the
linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy
of post-independence language and education policies that were among the
complex causes of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983 - 2009), the government has
recently sought to promote interethnic integration through trilingual language
policies in Sinhala, Tamil, and English in state schools. By engaging with the
actual experiences of Tamil and Muslim youth, Davis demonstrates the
difficulties of using language policy to ameliorate ethnic conflict if it does
not also address how that conflict is produced and reproduced in everyday
talk.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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