[lg policy] Language management: a snapshot of governmentality within the private schools in Quetta, Pakistan

Mon Dec 15 16:16:27 UTC 2014

Dear Abdul Manan,

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HS

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Abdul Manan . <rm_manan at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> *Language management: a snapshot of governmentality within the private
> schools in Quetta, Pakistan *
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> Syed Abdul Manan, Maya Khemlani David, Francisco Perlas Dumanig
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> Language Policy
> December 2014
> Language management: a snapshot of governmentality within the private
> schools in Quetta, Pakistan - Online First - Springer
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> Language management: a snapshot of governmentality within the private
> schools in Quetta, Pakistan ...
> Language Policy December 2014 Date: 04 Dec 2014 Language management: a
> snapshot of governmentality within the private schools in Quetta, Pakistan
> Syed Abdul Manan,
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>  Abstract
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> Pakistan is a multilingual and multiethnic country; however, this
> diversity stands unrecognized in the formal language-in-education policies.
> Estimates suggest that about 90 % of children who speak over 60 indigenous
> languages do not have access to education in their mother tongues.
> Linguists estimate that exclusive teaching of Urdu and English subjects the
> indigenous languages to physical endangerment as well as negative perceived
> vitality. This study investigated the language management techniques,
> practices and discourses of the school authorities about indigenous
> languages and linguistic diversity, and its effects on perceptions of the
> students. The study used the theoretical framework of governmentality as
> introduced by Foucault in The foucault effect: studies in governmentality
> with two lectures by and an interview with Michael Foucault, Harvester
> Wheatsheaf, London, (1991), which not only focuses on the direct acts of
> the governing of the state apparatuses, but also addresses the indirect
> acts of governance that shape individual behaviors. Deploying a mixed
> methodology that used students of high secondary level, teachers and school
> principals as sampling in 11 low-fee English-medium private schools in
> Quetta, Pakistan, the findings suggest that school authorities exercise
> stringent techniques such as notices, wall paintings, penalties and
> occasional punishment to suppress the use of languages other than Urdu or
> English. Mostly, the students also show compliance to the top-down
> policies. Most of participants perceive indigenous languages as worthless
> because of their lesser role in professional development and social
> mobility. The study concludes that the governance methods displace the
> indigenous languages both physically as well as perceptually. The
> prevailing orientations look upon languages as commodities, profoundly
> downgrading the cultural, literary, aesthetic and sociolinguistic dynamics
> of the indigenous languages.
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> *Google Translate Adds Kazakh, Tajik, Uzbek Languages *
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> December 12, 2014
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> Three Central Asian languages have been included in Google's online
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> The U.S.-based Internet giant's office in Kazakhstan announced on December
> 12 that instantaneous translation from Kazakh, Tajik, and Uzbek into other
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> Google Translate now covers more than 90 languages.
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 Harold F. Schiffman

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 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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Phone:  (215) 898-7475
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