The Struggle for a Multilingual Future - Youth and Education in Sri Lanka (Paperback)

In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy of post-independence language and education policies that were among the complex causes of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009), the government has recently sought to promote interethnic integration through trilingual language policies in Sinhala, Tamil, and English in state schools. Integrating ethnographic and linguistic research in and around two schools during the last phase of the war, Davis's research shows how, despite the intention of the reforms, practices on the ground reinforce language-based models of ethnicity and sustain ethnic divisions and power inequalities. By engaging with the actual experiences of Tamil and Muslim youth, Davis demonstrates the difficulties of using language policy to ameliorate ethnic conflict if it does not also address how that conflict is produced and reproduced in everyday talk.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
Release date:	February 2020
Authors:	Christina P Davis (Associate Professor of Anthropology)
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-094747-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-19-094747-0
Barcode:	9780190947477

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