Ideology and Interest in the Defence of Languages
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Köp båda 2 för 1008 krTo sum up, the editors have assembled a splendid collection of state-of-theart essays on language endangerment discourses written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and covering a wide range of languages ... The best of the essays are truly trailblazing. Linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguists, applied linguists, discourse analysts, and anyone else interested in language ideologies and language endangerment issues would do well to read this volume. * Discourse and Communication * A most stimulating work ... whose contributions in terms of knowledge, theoretical ideas and analyses are indispensible to begin to understand the evolution of the present-day situation of our world's languages. * Education et Socits plurilingues, 25 * This book is the most recent contribution to the growing literature on language endangerment" "the editors have assembled a splendid collection of state-of-the-art essays on language endangerment discourses written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and covering a wide range of languages" "all of the essays are of a very high quality. The best of the essays are truly trailblazing. Linguistic anthropologists, sociolinguistics, applied linguists, dicourse analysts, and anyone else interested in language ideologies and language endangerment issues would do well to read this volume. * Discourse & Communication * The real contribution of these papers comes when they are taken together, as they present a complex, multifaceted view of the discourse of endangerment and language ideology in modern times. * Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development * Through a wide-ranging collection of scholars and contributions the volume presents a unique critical analysis of the discourses on language endangerment, how these discourses have been constructed, and which strategies they rely on. The degree of complexity is great since these discourses are embedded in multiple power relations and power struggles, where several interests are at stake." "On the whole, although the range of authors presented is wide, the volume represents a close unit that fulfils its declared aims through a comprehensive and well presented analysis of several different cases. The book aims to interrogate current practices of linguistic expertise and therefore represents a significant contribution to the field and recommended reading for linguists and other actors called upon to provide expert discourse on language endangerment in order to gain some purchase towards understanding the consequences of their actions. -- Maja Mezgec, Slovene Research Institute, Slovenia * Multilingua * ...the volume's co-editors argue persuasively...an especially compelling set of questions...authors [are] very skilled in reading ideologies from their data...As a critique of discourses of endangerment, the volume makes significant strides not merely in questioning the rhetorical strategies used to discuss language extinction but also in disclosing conflicts of interest underlying these approaches...this volume takes a major step in offering a language ideological interpretation of how political-economic interests have shaped two very different kinds of threats - one rather real, the other quite imagined...it is a critical complement to such works for scholars interested in language ideological construction of "endangerment". * Language in Society (2009) * This volume is a useful contribution to the growing scholarship on language endangerment... This collection begins to attack some of the questionable assumptions which have been shaping popular discussions on language endangerment, and encourages more critical approaches to the varied settings in which one can observe language varieties under real or imagined threat. * The Linguist List * The volume is useful for those interested in understanding more aspects of the development of the language endangerment discourses of the
Alexandre Duchene is Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Monica Heller is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, Canada.
Preface, Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK); 1. Endangered discourses, Alexandre Duchene (Universitat Basel, Switzerland) and Monica Heller (University of Toronto, Canada); 2. Defending diversity, Shaylih Muehlmann (University of Toronto, Canada); 3. Indigenous language survival in Canada, Donna Patrick (Carleton University, Canada); 4. Who wants to save the Patois d'Evolene?, Marinette Matthey (University de Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Raphael Maitre (University de Neuchatel, Switzerland); 5. Linguistics, civil society and discourses of endangerment, Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, USA); 6. Discourses on language in the Ukraine, Patrick Seriot (Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland); 7. Language ideological debates in Sweden, Tommasso Milani (Stockholm University, Denmark); 8. Language endangerment, war and peace in Northern Ireland, Tony Crowley (Manchester University, UK); 9. The future of Catalan, Joan Pujolar (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain); 10. Competing discourses of language preservation along the Baie Sainte-Marie, Annette Boudreau and Lise Dubois (Universite de Moncton, Canada); 11. France and the preservation of French, Claudine Moise (Universite d'Avingnon et de Pays Vaucluse, France); 12. Defending English in an English-dominant world, Ron Schmidt (California State University, USA); 13. Language endangerment and verbal hygiene, Deborah Cameron (Oxford University, UK).