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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:46:56
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Volker, Anderson (eds.)

 


Title: Education in Languages of Lesser Power 
Subtitle: Asia-Pacific Perspectives 
Series Title: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 35  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/impact.35 


Editor: Craig Alan Volker
Editor: Fred E. Anderson

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027269584 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027269584 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027269584 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027218766 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027218766 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027218766 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

The cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region is reflected in a multitude
of linguistic ecologies of languages of lesser power, i.e., of indigenous and
immigrant languages whose speakers lack collective linguistic power,
especially in education. This volume looks at a representative sampling of
such communities. Some receive strong government support, while others receive
none. For some indigenous languages, the same government schools that once
tried to stamp out indigenous languages are now the vehicles of language
revival. As the various chapters in this book show, some parents strongly
support the use of languages other than the national language in education,
while others are actively against it, and perhaps a majority have ambivalent
feelings. The overall meta-theme that emerges from the collection is the need
to view the teaching and learning of these languages in relation to the
different needs of the speakers within a sociolinguistics of mobility.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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