By Tina Hickey, Jenny Williams
ISBN-10: 0585240795
ISBN-13: 9780585240794
ISBN-10: 185359315X
ISBN-13: 9781853593154
The papers during this quantity are a variety from these offered at a convention whose topic was once Language, schooling and Society in a altering international. This convention supplied a discussion board for the dialogue of a few of the foremost concerns dealing with language planners, coverage makers, researchers and lecturers, in an international the place languages have gotten extinct at an alarming cost and are often a spotlight for dispute and clash, the place overseas language educating and studying are faced by way of new technological and sensible calls for, and the place smooth verbal exchange media require the improvement of latest linguistic recommendations. those elements, including the continuing sluggish monetary and academic improvement within the 3rd global, the place entry to a 'world language' is usually promoted as a tutorial panacea, current utilized linguistics with significant philosophical in addition to useful difficulties.
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The acceleration of interest and research since then has been marked and my contention is that this whole area is essentially about identity. But, within the last three or four years, identity per se has been highlighted to an unprecedented extent. To go back no further than the last two years: Calhoun has published a book on the politics of identity (1994); Hooson's volume on geography and identity has just appeared (1994): Rajchman has an edited collection entitled The Identity in Question (1994); Kroskrity's Language, History and Identity appeared last year (1993); Frese edited Celebrations of Identity in 1993; and so on.
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