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Language and State

Author : Xing Yu
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525595075
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Language and State written by Xing Yu and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that while humans communicate using language, they create and use media. Media extend the distance of communication. Humans form themselves into a large community. This happens in a long historical process in which the state of the civilized society replaces the tribe of the primitive society. Language replaces kinship in playing a role in the formation of human society. Then this book argues that while humans communicate using language, they form political, economic and cultural communities which in turn jointly sustain the formation of the state. While humans use language in communication, they also create a series of language solutions to the organization of the state. They make a constitution, hold elections and even set up representation when they govern their state in the principle of democracy. Extending the distance of linguistic communication also underlies the formation of government as well as the emergence of three juxtaposing branches of government—administrative, legislative and judicial bodies. By using language in long-distance linguistic communication, humans further create their history, philosophy, literature, art, religion and law which play a role in the construction of people’s spirit that guides the operation and the future development of the state. Language not only gives origin to the state but also presets the whole process of the development of the state. This book offers one of the most systematic theories about the formation, the building and the future of the state.

State Traditions and Language Regimes

Author : Linda Cardinal
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773582940
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book State Traditions and Language Regimes written by Linda Cardinal and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language policies are political. They have political consequences as well as political origins. In State Traditions and Language Regimes, scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America shift focus from the consequences of language policies to how and why states make language policy choices. This shift, theorized through the concept of "language regime," inserts an urgently needed political science perspective into the current dialogue between sociolinguists, who research the societal effects of language policies, and political theorists of language rights, who analyze the normative implications of policies. New analytical tools drawn from comparative politics are showcased to analyze paths taken by different states in establishing language regimes, at times disrupted and redirected at critical junctures. Contributions to the volume include analyses of Canada's increasingly court-driven language policies, the United States’ bifurcated language regime in the aftermath of 9/11, Ireland’s conflicted protection of the Irish language, France's linguistic Jacobin tradition disrupted by Europeanization, the role of political parties and coalitions in language regime stability and change in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, Poland's war-torn history informing policy toward regional languages, and the role of English in international peace-building. While other books look at the political and societal effects of language policy, none seeks to employ a historical institutionalism approach which sets language policy choice in the context of power relations embedded in state traditions. State Traditions and Language Regimes offers a comparative politics perspective, one that enriches interdisciplinary debate on language policy.

The State of the Language

Author : Christopher Ricks
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520301269
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The State of the Language written by Christopher Ricks and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing," wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. "The language is in rude health," wrote another. Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today. Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which they compete or cooperate. The nervous negotiations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of "standard English" and correctness. The "bad language" that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been politicized—or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been recognized? Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various light. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as detail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s. The State of the Language has been prepared in cooperation with the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco. Some titles of essays in the book: Whose English? by Sidney Greenbaum Look, Ma, I'm Talking by Sandra Gilbert Fighting Talk by Marina Warner No Opera Please—We're British by Michael Bawtree Changing What We Sing by Margaret Doody On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today by David Dabydeen Talking Black by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Subway Graffiti by Walter J. Ong Doublespeak by William Lutz It's a Myth, Innit? Politeness and the English Tag Question by John Algeo This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Language, Society, and the State

Author : Gareth Price
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN 13 : 9781501526510
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Language, Society, and the State written by Gareth Price and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Taiwan as a case study, this book constructs an innovative theory of a political sociology of language. Through documentary and ethnographic data and a comparative-historical method the book illustrates how language mediates interactions betwe

The State of the Language

Author : Leonard Michaels
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520037632
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book The State of the Language written by Leonard Michaels and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers a wide range of topics related to contemporary language

Language, Ethnic Identity and the State

Author : William Safran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131798384X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Language, Ethnic Identity and the State written by William Safran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study powerfully asserts the pivotal importance of the interplay between language and ethnicity, which is often underestimated as a component for political stability. These leading scholars present five key case studies of South Africa, Algeria, Canada, Latvia and Senegal. All five countries are multilingual nations where language has been a central political issue that has challenged their unity and stability. These studies are underpinned by two general, comparative and theoretical discussions, which analyse how scholars consider social class and economic factors to be the primary sources for political cohesion or of malcontent with the system and the new avenues opened by a focus on issues of langauge. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of linguistics, language, politics and sociology. This is a special issue of the leading journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Language Policy and Language Planning

Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137576472
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Language Policy and Language Planning written by Sue Wright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.

Speaking Like a State

Author : Alyssa Ayres
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521519314
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Speaking Like a State written by Alyssa Ayres and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines language and culture's importance to political legitimacy using the example of Pakistan, in comparison with India and Indonesia.

Language and State

Author : Xing Yu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761869042
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Language and State written by Xing Yu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that a tribe of the primitive society is formed because of kinship, while a state of the civilized society is formed because of language. Language presets the whole process of the progress of human civilization.

Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309186587
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners by : National Research Council

Download or read book Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the allocation of federal funds for programs to assist these students to be proficient in English became formula-based: 80 percent on the basis of the population of children with limited English proficiency1 and 20 percent on the basis of the population of recently immigrated children and youth. Title III of NCLB directs the U.S. Department of Education to allocate funds on the basis of the more accurate of two allowable data sources: the number of students reported to the federal government by each state education agency or data from the American Community Survey (ACS). The department determined that the ACS estimates are more accurate, and since 2005, those data have been basis for the federal distribution of Title III funds. Subsequently, analyses of the two data sources have raised concerns about that decision, especially because the two allowable data sources would allocate quite different amounts to the states. In addition, while shortcomings were noted in the data provided by the states, the ACS estimates were shown to fluctuate between years, causing concern among the states about the unpredictability and unevenness of program funding. In this context, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned the National Research Council to address the accuracy of the estimates from the two data sources and the factors that influence the estimates. The resulting book also considers means of increasing the accuracy of the data sources or alternative data sources that could be used for allocation purposes.

State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa

Author : Ericka A. Albaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139916777
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Book Synopsis State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa by : Ericka A. Albaugh

Download or read book State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa written by Ericka A. Albaugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.

Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States

Author : Sara M. Beaudrie
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589019393
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States written by Sara M. Beaudrie and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing interest in heritage language learners—individuals who have a personal or familial connection to a nonmajority language. Spanish learners represent the largest segment of this population in the United States. In this comprehensive volume, experts offer an interdisciplinary overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. They also address the central role of education within the field. Contributors offer a wealth of resources for teachers while proposing future directions for scholarship.

Finite-state Language Processing

Author : Emmanuel Roche
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262181822
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Finite-state Language Processing written by Emmanuel Roche and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finite-state devices, such as finite-state automata, graphs, and finite-state transducers, have been present since the emergence of computer science and are extensively used in areas as various as program compilation, hardware modeling, and database management. Although finite-state devices have been known for some time in computational linguistics, more powerful formalisms such as context-free grammars or unification grammars have typically been preferred. Recent mathematical and algorithmic results in the field of finite-state technology have had a great impact on the representation of electronic dictionaries and on natural language processing, resulting in a new technology for language emerging out of both industrial and academic research. This book presents a discussion of fundamental finite-state algorithms, and constitutes an approach from the perspective of natural language processing.

Law, Language and the Multilingual State

Author : Claudine Brohy
Publisher : UJ Press
ISBN 13 : 1920382224
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Law, Language and the Multilingual State written by Claudine Brohy and published by UJ Press. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of the conference, “Language, Law and the Multilingual State”, was determined to investigate the state-juridical challenges facing multilingual societies. Several related issues were addressed, such as minority and indigenous languages, globalisation and diversity, language rights, language ideology and language legislation.

Basics of Language for Language Learners, 2nd Edition

Author : Peter W. Culicover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814254431
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Basics of Language for Language Learners, 2nd Edition written by Peter W. Culicover and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basics of Language for Language Learners, 2nd edition, by Peter W. Culicover and Elizabeth V. Hume, systematically explores all the aspects of language central to second language learning: the sounds of language, the different grammatical structures, the tools and strategies for learning, the social functions of communication, and the psychology of language learning and use.

Aazheyaadizi

Author : Mark D. Freeland
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954159
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Aazheyaadizi written by Mark D. Freeland and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the English translations of Indigenous languages that we commonly use today have been handed down from colonial missionaries whose intent was to fundamentally alter or destroy prior Indigenous knowledge and praxis. In this text, author Mark D. Freeland develops a theory of worldview that provides an interrelated logical mooring to shed light on the issues around translating Indigenous languages in and out of colonial languages. In tandem with other linguistic and narrative methods, this theory of worldview can be employed to help root out the reproduction of colonial culture in Indigenous languages and can be a useful addition to the repertoire of tools needed to return to life-giving relationships with our environment. These issues of decolonization are highlighted in the trajectory of treaty language associated with relationships to land and their present-day importance. This book uses the 1836 Treaty of Washington and its contemporary manifestation in Great Lakes fishing rights and the State of Michigan’s 2007 Inland Consent Decree as a means of identifying the role of worldview in deciphering the logics embedded in Anishinaabe thought associated with these relationships to land. A fascinating study for students of Indigenous and linguistic disciplines, this book deftly demonstrates the significance of worldview theory in relation to the logics of decolonization of Indigenous thought and praxis.

Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 1

Author : C. O'Reilly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230504639
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Language, Ethnicity and the State, Volume 1 written by C. O'Reilly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in the European Union over the last decade have been largely positive from the perspective of stateless and minority ethnic groups and the survival and prosperity of minority languages. This selection of sociologically and ethnographically oriented work enables the reader to compare developments in different ethno-linguistic revival movements within the European Union. The contributions also explore the impact of EU policy and discourse on the individual movements and the orientation of Western Europe as a whole towards linguistic heterogeneity and cultural diversity. A companion volume (0-333-92924-1) examines the status of minority languages in post-1989 Eastern Europe.