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'Along the Routes to Power' - Explorations of Empowerment through Language (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
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'Along the Routes to Power' - Explorations of Empowerment through Language (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]
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The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD
Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of
Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment
through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of
power and/or empowerment as observed in the status and use of
language(s) and their speakers in bilingual and multilingual
communities. The book discusses the theoretical issues inherent in
the relation between language and power, the empowerment strategies
involved in language policy and language planning situations, and
the issue of language endangerment in Africa, i.e., the fate of
minority languages and their speakers and the sociopolitical
factors perpetuating their exclusion from access to knowledge and
skills. The volume constitutes a collection of papers by prominent
linguists from many countries who explore the exciting
interdisciplinary area of language, power, and linguistic
empowerment. Broadly speaking, the papers focus on the theoretical
and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in
language policy and language planning situations in multilingual
settings, language choices, code switches, and associated topics.
Thus, the aim of the volume is to open up language policy and
language planning issues as observed in multilingual contexts
(nations, institutions, other settings, and domains) to the wider
community of critical sociolinguistics by concentrating on the
relationship between language and power. More particularly, it
offers a decidedly sociolinguistic perspective to the study of
language and power, which likewise has been tackled from other
perspectives in the areas of sociology and political science. This
interdisciplinary relationship is important both for linguistics
and for the sociology of language. In this way, the book is an
important contribution to general linguistics, sociolinguistics,
minority issues in multilingual settings as well as the social
sciences. In honor of his upcoming 80th birthday (2006) , Fishman's
colleagues and former students are preparing five volumes by him or
about him, this being one of them.
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