[lg policy] Fwd: Information on New Books

[Harold Schiffman]

<lpp at ucalgary.ca>









This message is being sent on behalf of Dr. Tom Ricento (
tricento at ucalgary.ca)

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March 15, 2015



Dear Colleagues,



     I have recently published two books, one with Oxford University Press
and one with Springer that might be of interest to those of you who are on
this LP listserve.  The OUP book (T. Ricento (ed.)) is *Language Policy and
Political Economy:  English in a Global Context*.  Below are the dust
jacket blurbs; if you click on the link below, you can see the description
and TOC.



For those of you attending AAAL and/or TESOL in Toronto later this week and
next week, you can purchase (or order) the book with a 30% discount at the
Oxford exhibit.



Here is a link to the book at amazon.com:



http://www.amazon.com/Language-Policy-Political-Economy-English/dp/0199363390/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426474156&sr=1-1&keywords=ricento





*“Tom Ricento and the stellar cast of scholars he has assembled in this
book achieve something extraordinary: they construct a story that people
will still have to read decades later, on an object characterized
paradoxically by extremely rapid and radical change. It is an intellectual
and academic tour de force which focuses on mechanisms and structures
rather than on phenomena and anecdotes, and so easily transcends the level
of here-and-now documentation.”*—JAN BLOMMAERT, Tilburg University





*“In an era where language change and loss is often explained by reference
to inevitable forces of ‘culture’ and ‘globalization,’ this important book
brings us back home to core questions of economic power and political
control.”*—ALLAN LUKE, Queensland University of Technology





*“Language Policy and Political Economy is both timely and important,
engaging with the debates that are central to current language policy
research. I don’t think anyone will be able to write about ‘global English’
again without seriously engaging with the analyses in this book.”*—JAMES
TOLLEFSON, The University of Hong Kong





Also, just published is *Language Policy and Political Theory:  Building
Bridges, Assessing Breaches* (Thomas Ricento, Yael Peled, Peter Ives
(eds.)), Springer.



Here is the link to the book on amazon.com:



http://www.amazon.com/Language-Policy-Political-Theory-Assessing/dp/3319150839/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426474564&sr=1-2&keywords=ricento



Here is a brief description of the contents:



Contemporary debates on immigration, multiculturalism, nationalism, and
linguistic rights often find language policy scholars and political
philosophers at odds. This book aims to assess the obstacles and build
bridges between scholars of language policy and political theory with
chapters by Stephen May, Ronald Schmidt, Jr., Daniel Weinstock, Thomas
Ricento, Yael Peled and Peter Ives. Along with an introduction by the
editors, the chapters map out the contours of the debates and potential
contributions that political theory can make to language policy and
vice-versa. The book offers an appraisal of current research, areas of
contestation and a framework for future interdisciplinary inquiry on the
complex interface between language, power and ethics. This collection will
be useful for scholars from diverse disciplinary perspectives with
interests in contemporary societal debates in which language plays an
important—even central—role.





This book will also be on sale at AAAL and TESOL at the Springer table.



Regards,

Tom Ricento

Professor and Research Chair, English as an Additional Language

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

tricento at ucalgary.ca








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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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