Negotiating Language, Constructing Race

Negotiating Language, Constructing Race
Author: Nirmala Srirekam PuruShotam
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-11-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311080445X

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Negotiating Language, Constructing Race

Negotiating Language, Constructing Race
Author: Nirmala Purushotam
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110156799

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Negotiating Multiculturalism

Negotiating Multiculturalism
Author: Nirmala Purushotam
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783110156805

Originally published as Negotiating Language, Constructing Race, 1998, in the series titled Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 79, sociologist Nirmala Srirekam PuruShotam discusses language as a social phenomenon, focusing specifically on the configuration of nation in Singapore. Annotat

Negotiating Multiculturalism

Negotiating Multiculturalism
Author: Nirmala Srirekam Purushotam
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110801906

Artifacts and Allegiances

Artifacts and Allegiances
Author: Peggy Levitt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520961455

What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a country’s cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of particular cities help explain how museums represent diversity? Artifacts and Allegiances takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. Based on firsthand conversations with museum directors, curators, and policymakers; descriptions of current and future exhibitions; and inside stories about the famous paintings and iconic objects that define collections across the globe, this work provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism. By comparing museums in Europe, the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, Peggy Levitt offers a fresh perspective on the role of the museum in shaping citizens. Taken together, these accounts tell the fascinating story of a sea change underway in the museum world at large.

Making Nations, Creating Strangers

Making Nations, Creating Strangers
Author: Sarah Rich Dorman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004157905

This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa, where conflicts are legitimated through claims of exclusionary nationhood and redefinitions of citizenship.

Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia

Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia
Author: Lee Hock Guan
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9812304827

Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan

Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan
Author: Anna Ghimenton
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027259755

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive approaches to language acquisition. The book integrates sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic issues by bringing together scholars who have been developing conceptions of language acquisition across the lifespan that take into account language-internal and cross-linguistic variation in contexts of both first and second language acquisition as well as of first and second dialect acquisition. The volume brings together theoretical and empirical research and provides an excellent basis for scholars and students wanting to delve into the social and cognitive dimensions of both the production and perception of sociolinguistic variation. The book enables the reader to understand, on the one hand, how variation is acquired in childhood or at a later stage and, on the other, how perception and production feed into one another, thus building up our understanding of the social meanings underpinning language variation.

Language Without Rights

Language Without Rights
Author: Lionel Wee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199737428

A book-length critique of the concept of language rights and an exploration of language in social life.