Along the Routes to Power

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ISBN: 9783110185997 | 3110185997
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Copyright: 6/30/2006

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This volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held in 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. It constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists who explore the interdisciplinary area of language and power. The papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language policy and language planning situations in multilingual settings, code switches, and associated topics. The fate of African minority languages and their speakers is of particular concern.

Preface

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction: Along the routes to power

xiii

Martin Pütz, Joshua A. Fishman and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer

Section 1. Theoretical perspectives: Linguistic empowerment and language choices

Sociolinguistics: More power(s) to you! (On the explicit study of power in sociolinguistic research)

(10)

Joshua A. Fishman

The power of language, the language of power

(22)

John Edwards

Language endangerment, the construction of indigenous languages and world English

(20)

Janina Brutt-Griffler

The power to choose and its sociolinguistic implications

(18)

Florian Coulmas

How codeswitching as an available option empowers bilinguals

(14)

Carol Myers-Scotton

Section 2. Language policy and language planning: Empowering speakers of minority languages in communities and institutions

Language policy failures

(20)

Bernard Spolsky

Empowerment through the community language – A challenge

107

(22)

Michael Clyne

Pidgins and Creoles between endangerment and empowerment: A dynamic view of empowerment in the growth and the decline of contact languages, especially in the Pacific

129

(28)

Sabine Ehrhart, Christian Mair and Peter Mühlhäusler

Lost in transculturation: The case of bilingual education in New York City

157

(22)

Ofelia Garcia

Language policies in Spain: Accomodation or alteration?

179

(20)

JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer

The potential of parliaments for the empowerment of linguistic minorities: Experiences from Scotland and Norway

199

(18)

Heiko F. Marten

The dominance of languages and language communities in the European Union (EU) and the consequences

217

(24)

Ulrich Ammon

Section 3. The language empowerment discourse: Case studies of language policy and language planning in Africa

Socio-political factors in the evolution of language policy in post-Apartheid South Africa

241

(20)

Neville Alexander

Marginalisation and empowerment through educational medium: The case of the linguistically disadvantaged groups of Botswana and Tanzania

261

(24)

Herman M. Batibo

Language policy, cultural rights and the law in Botswana

285

(20)

Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo

We speak Otjiherero but we write in English – Disempowerment through language use in participatory extension work

305

(28)

Rose Marie Beck

Empowerment through English – A realistic view of the educational promotion of English in post-colonial contexts: The case of Nigeria

333

(24)

Hans-Georg Wolf and Herbert Igboanusi

Life in a Tower of Babel without a language policy

357

(16)

Augustin Simo Bobda

JK Nyerere of Tanzania and the empowerment of Swahili

373

(32)

Karsten Legère

Living on borrowed tongues? A view from within

405

(16)

Paulin G. Djité

Index

421

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Along the Routes to Power

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