The multilingual citizen : towards a politics of language for agency and change
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The multilingual citizen : towards a politics of language for agency and change
(Encounters, 11)
Multilingual Matters, c2018
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 1. Linguistic citizenship / Christopher Stroud
- 2. Essentialism and language rights / Lionel Wee
- 3. Commentary - unanswered questions : addressing the inequalities of majoritarian language policies / Stephen May
- 4. Affirming linguistic rights, fostering linguistic citizenship : a Cameroonian perspective / Blasius A. Chiatoh
- 5. Education and citizenship in Mozambique : colonial and postcolonial perspectives / Feliciano Chimbutane
- 6. Paths to multilingualism? Reflections on developments in language-in-education policy and practice in East Timor / Estêvão Cabral and Marilyn Martin-Jones
- 7. Language rights and thainess : community-based bilingual education is the key / Suwilai Premsrirat and Paul Bruthiaux
- 8. Commentary - linguistic citizenship : who decides whose languages, ideologies and vocabulary matter? / Kathleen Heugh
- 9. Citizenship theory and fieldwork practice in Sri Lanka Malay communities / Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim
- 10. Linguistic citizenship in Sweden : (de)constructing languages in a context of linguistic human rights / Tommaso M. Milani and Rickard Jonsson
- 11. Linguistic citizenship in post-Banda Malawi : a focus on the public radio and primary education / Gregory Kamwendo
- 12. Making and shaping participatory spaces : resemiotization and citizenship agency in South Africa / Caroline Kerfoot
- Commentary - on participation and resistance / Ana Deumert
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to support. The chapters discuss issues of decoloniality and multilingualism in the global South, and together retheorize how to accommodate diversity in complexly multilingual/ multicultural societies. Offering a framework anchored in transformative notions of democratic and reflexive citizenship, it prompts readers to critically rethink how existing contemporary frameworks such as Linguistic Human Rights rest on disempowering forms of multilingualism that channel discourses of diversity into specific predetermined cultural and linguistic identities.
Table of Contents
Contributors' Bios
Preface and Acknowledgements
Christopher Stroud: Introduction
Language Rights and Linguistic Citizenship
1. Christopher Stroud: Linguistic Citizenship
2. Lionel Wee: Essentialism and Language Rights
3. Stephen May: Commentary. Unanswered Questions: Addressing the Inequalities of Majoritarian Language Policies
Educating for Linguistic Citizenship
4. Blasius A. Chiatoh: Affirming Linguistic Rights, Fostering Linguistic Citizenship: A Cameroonian Perspective
5. Feliciano Chimbutane: Education and Citizenship in Mozambique: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives
6. Estevao Cabral and Marilyn Martin-Jones: Paths to Multilingualism? Reflections on Developments in Language-In-Education Policy and Practice in East Timor
7. Suwilai Premsrirat and Paul Bruthiaux: Language Rights and "Thainess": Community-Based Bilingual Education Is the Key
8. Kathleen Heugh: Commentary. Linguistic Citizenship: Who Decides Whose Languages, Ideologies And Vocabulary Matter?
Linguistic Citizenship in Resistance and Participation
9. Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim: Citizenship Theory and Fieldwork Practice in Sri Lanka Malay Communities
10. Tommaso M. Milani and Rickard Jonsson: Linguistic Citizenship in Sweden: Resistance in A Context of Linguistic Human Rights
11. Gregory Kamwendo: Linguistic Citizenship in Post-Banda Malawi: A Focus On the Public Radio and Primary Education
12. Caroline Kerfoot: Making and Shaping Participatory Spaces: Resemiotization and Citizenship Agency in South Africa
13. Ana Deumert: Commentary. On Participation and Resistance
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