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Language Studies in India

Author : Rajesh Kumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811952760
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Language Studies in India written by Rajesh Kumar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses a wide range of aspects of the study of language in a variety of domains such as cognition, change, acquisition, structure, philosophy, politics, and education. It offers a renewed discussion on normative understanding of these concepts and opens up avenues for a fresh look at these concepts. Each contribution in this book captures a wide range of perspectives and underlines the vigorous role of language, which happens to be central to the arguments contained therein. The uniqueness of this book lies in the fact that it presents simplified perspective on various complex aspects of language. It addresses a wide range of audiences, who do not necessarily need to have a technical background in linguistics. It focuses on complex relations between language and cognition, politics, education to name a few with reference to cognition, change, and acquisition. This book is for researchers with an interest in the field of language studies, applied linguistics, and socio-linguistics.

Language Policy and Education in India

Author : M. Sridhar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134878311
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Language Policy and Education in India written by M. Sridhar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempts to establish hegemony, the play of power, and the anxieties in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India. The essays in the volume discuss language policy, debates and pedagogy as well as larger overarching questions such as identity, nationhood and sub-nationhood. The work also looks at the socio-cultural and economic factors that shaped the writing and publishing of textbooks, dictionaries and determined the direction of language teaching, specifically, of English language teaching. Drawing on a variety of archival sources — policy documents, books, periodicals — this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of linguistics, language teaching, cultural studies and modern Indian history.

Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India

Author : Lisa Mitchell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253353017
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India written by Lisa Mitchell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The charged emotional politics of language and identity in India

Indian Philosophy of Language

Author : Mark Siderits
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401132348
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Indian Philosophy of Language written by Mark Siderits and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition? As recently as twenty or thirty years ago this question simply would not have arisen. If a practitioner of analytic philosophy of language of that time had any view of Indian philosophy at all, it was most likely to be the stereotyped picture of a gaggle of navel gazing mystics making vaguely Bradley-esque pronouncements on the oneness of the one that was one once. Much work has been done in the intervening years to overthrow that stereotype. Thanks to the efforts of such scholars as J. N. Mohanty, B. K. Matilal, and Karl Potter, philoso phers working in the analytic tradition have begun to discover something of the range and the rigor of classical Indian work in epistemolgy and metaphysics. Thus for instance, at least some recent discussions of personal identity reflect an awareness that the Indian Buddhist tradition might prove an important source of insights into the ramifications of a reductionist approach to personal identity. In philosophy of language, though, things have not improved all that much. While the old stereotype may no longer prevail among its practitioners, I suspect that they would not view classical Indian philoso phy as an important source of insights into issues in their field. Nor are they to be faulted for this.

Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India

Author : Shreesh Chaudhary
Publisher : Cambridge India
ISBN 13 : 8175966289
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India written by Shreesh Chaudhary and published by Cambridge India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's natural wealth, knowledge, arts and crafts have attracted foreigners throughout its long history. It has had continuous cultural contact and trade with other countries and, in all this, India has been exposed to many foreign languages such as Arabic, Bactrian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Turkish and in a certain sense, Sanskrit. Each of these languages went through a cycle, rising to the position of power and prestige, and eventually declining and yielding place to yet another language. In this process, all these languages interacted with the native languages of India and exchanged sounds, words, sentences, idioms and expressions, sometimes even giving birth to new languages. Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India: A Sociolinguistic History tells the story of this long and continuous history of the advent, learning, use, demise and debris of some foreign languages in India.

Language, Education, and Identity

Author : Chaise LaDousa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000407853
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Language, Education, and Identity written by Chaise LaDousa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines medium of instruction in education and studies its social, economic, and political significance in the lives of people living in South Asia. It provides insight into the meaning of medium and what makes it so important to identity, aspiration, and inequality. It questions the ideologized associations between education and social and spatial mobility and discusses the gender- and class-based marginalization that comes with vernacular-medium education. The volume also considers how policy measures, such as the Right to Education (RTE) Act in India, have failed to address the inequalities brought by medium in schools, and investigates questions on language access, inclusion, and rights. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the book will be indispensable for students and scholars of anthropology, education studies, sociolinguistics, sociology, and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to those interested in language and education in South Asia, especially the role of language in the reproduction of inequality.

The Politics of English Language Education and Social Inequality

Author : Maya Kalyanpur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100082568X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of English Language Education and Social Inequality by : Maya Kalyanpur

Download or read book The Politics of English Language Education and Social Inequality written by Maya Kalyanpur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on policy analysis and empirical data, this book examines the problematic consequences of colonial legacies of language policies and English language education in the multilingual contexts of the Global South. Using a postcolonial lens, the volume explores the raciolinguistics of language hierarchies that results in students from low-income backgrounds losing their mother tongues without acquiring academic fluency in English. Using findings from five major research projects, the book analyzes the specific context of India, where ambiguous language policies have led to uneasy tensions between the colonial language of English, national and state languages, and students’ linguistic diversity is mistaken for cognitive deficits when English is the medium of instruction in schools. The authors situate their own professional and personal experiences in their efforts at dismantling postcolonial structures through reflective practice as teacher educators, and present solutions of decolonial resistance to linguistic hierarchies that include critical pedagogical alternatives to bilingual education and opportunities for increased teacher agency. Ultimately, this timely volume will appeal to researchers, scholars, academics, and students in the fields of international and comparative education, English and literacy studies, and language arts more broadly. Those interested in English language learning in low-income countries specifically will also find this book to be of benefit to their research.

Pre-Pāṇinian Linguistic Studies

Author : D. D. Mahulkar
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788185119885
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Pre-Pāṇinian Linguistic Studies written by D. D. Mahulkar and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents Sanskrit language studies in a new setting-that of `socio-linguistics'. Illustrate how some of the missing links in traditional Sanskrit studies can be understood if the evolutionary aspect of language studies is connected with the study of socio-cultural history of the speech The new model of socio-historical linguistics is for the first time conceived and developed as a variational, dynamic and developmental model. Neatly planned and richly illustrated, this book breaks a new ground in modern linguistic studies showing how socio-linguistic studies can be enjoyed not only as sources of new hypotheses in historical studies but also as source of rich cultural contexts lost from material archaeological discoveries. Language, pleads the author, preserves a rich cultural archaeology of a community. The formulation of the scientific methodology of language studies from this point of view has to be the logical sine qua non of all historical linguistic studies which have been in a state of revival since 1965.

Language Studies

Author : Andrew Littlejohn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443843865
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Language Studies written by Andrew Littlejohn and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a defining characteristic of what it means to be human, the use of language plays a central role in almost all human activity. Language functions as a cornerstone in the construction of our identity and in the relationships we build. It takes a central role in facilitating every enterprise we undertake, creates the thread which forms our own biographies, and enables us to play a part in the transmission and maintenance of our culture. This pervasive nature of language means that it may form the starting point for an investigation into virtually any aspect of social life. In recent years, this has led to a stretching of the boundaries of language studies, prompted by an intense cross-fertilisation of ideas with a wide range of disciplines. It is this cross-fertilisation which forms the focus of the present collection. Taken together, the thirteen papers it contains provide an absorbing, rich array of subjects touched by the centrality of language. Encompassing themes from social psychology, translation theory, computer science, forensics, educational policy, language change, archaeology, and literature, the collection demonstrates that the study of language offers limitless possibilities to aid an understanding of the world in which we live. International in scope, the collection includes contributions from scholars well-established in their fields, at work in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Asia. As such, the collection offers a stimulating perspective for readers in a wide range of contexts, whether they themselves are principally concerned with language or are simply eager to see how the study of language may be relevant to their own discipline.

English Language Learning in the Asian Context 2nd Edn

Author : Paul Robertson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 8990841232
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis English Language Learning in the Asian Context 2nd Edn by : Paul Robertson

Download or read book English Language Learning in the Asian Context 2nd Edn written by Paul Robertson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language Education

Author : Nishevita Jayendran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000412415
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Language Education written by Nishevita Jayendran and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The book focuses on the teaching of English language and current studies in the pedagogy of language in Indian schools • It discusses issues of (second) language acquisition and learning, ELT studies, literacy studies and critical pedagogies in language and literature. • Will be of interest to teachers of secondary and higher secondary schools, teacher educators, curriculum designers and developers of language, teacher education institutions, departments of education and those working in the areas of language education and literacy across US and UK

The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies

Author : Michael Pearce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134264283
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies written by Michael Pearce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with real examples of the way people use English in different contexts, The Routledge Dictionary of English Language Studies is an indispensable guide to the richness and variety of the English language for both students and the general reader. From abbreviation to zero-article, via fricative and slang, the Dictionary contains over 600 wide ranging and informative entries covering: the core areas of language description and analysis: phonetics and phonology, grammar, lexis, semantics, pragmatics and discourse sociolinguistics, including entries on social and regional variation, stylistic variation, and language and gender the history of the English language from Old English to the present-day the main varieties of English spoken around the world, covering the British isles, the Caribbean, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia stylistics, literary language and English usage.

Language Studies in the Franciscan Order

Author : John Mary Lenhart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Language Studies in the Franciscan Order written by John Mary Lenhart and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education

Author : Suman Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317638166
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education written by Suman Gupta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers, policy-makers and society in general, and how these are addressed at the higher education level. It presents analytical background discussions of the history and policy environment, and offers open-ended, multi-faceted and multi-vocal accounts of particular aspects of contemporary Indian English Studies, including curriculum, pedagogy, research, employment, relation to Indian vernaculars and translation studies. Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education is an invaluable source for anyone interested in: The relevant histories and higher education policies Professional concerns, including employment, management, teaching and scholarly practices, and negotiations in terms of socio-cultural life Student attitudes, experiences and aspirations Management ethos and academic work in a comparative perspective, informed by the situation and debates in the United Kingdom and United States of America The context of global English Studies and globalization The book will be of primary interest to academic readers such as students, teachers and researchers in English Studies in India, Britain and wherever the discipline is pursued at higher education level Suman Gupta is Professor and Chair in Literature and Cultural History at The Open University. Richard Allen is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English at The Open University. Subarno Chattarji is Associate Professor at the Department of English, University of Delhi. Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities in India

Author : Thomas Benedikter
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643102313
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities in India written by Thomas Benedikter and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India not only is concerned with inevitable multilingualism, but also with the rights of many millions of speakers of minority languages. As the political and cultural context privileges some major languages, linguistic minorities often feel discriminated against by the current language policy of the Union and the States. They experience on a daily basis that their mother tongues are deemed worthless dialects that have little utility in modern life. Many such languages have definitively disappeared, and several more are on the brink of extinction. Is this the inevitable price to be paid for economic modernization, cultural homogenisation and the multilingual fabric of India's society at large? This book is an effort to map India's linguistic minorities and to assess the language policy towards these communities. The author, a senior researcher of the EURAC (South Tyrol, Italy), assuming linguistic rights as a component of fundamental human rights, codified in a number of international covenants and in the Indian Constitution, provides an appraisal of the extent to which language rights are respected in India's multilingual reality, which takes into consideration the experiences of minority language protection in other regions.

Negotiating Language Education Policies

Author : Ofelia García
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135146217
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Language Education Policies written by Ofelia García and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators are at the epicenter of language policy in education. This book explores how they interpret, negotiate, resist, and (re)create language policies in classrooms. Bridging the divide between policy and practice by analyzing their interconnectedness, it examines the negotiation of language education policies in schools around the world, focusing on educators' central role in this complex and dynamic process.Each chapter shares findings from research conducted in specific school districts, schools, or classrooms around the world and then details how educators negotiate policy in.

Learning and Teaching English in India

Author : Ravi Sheorey
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761934653
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Learning and Teaching English in India written by Ravi Sheorey and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents empirical studies on the various factors that influence English language learning and teaching in India. In particular, the author examines whether and to what extent the variables which have been shown to influence second language learning in monolingual countries also apply to the Indian situation which is characterized by multilingualism and multiculturalism. Among the various aspects discussed in this book are Indian students` (and their teachers`) ‘theories’ about learning English; their preferences or styles for language learning; the learning and reading strategies they use to enhance their competence in English; the degree of language learning anxiety they experience; and their attitudes toward, and motivation for, learning English. Ravi Sheorey also explores Indian teachers` judgments of the errors they come across in the writings of their students. The results are compared to studies with subjects from other countries and the implications for the learning and teaching of English are discussed in each chapter.