Language Planning and Policy in Latin America
Language Planning and Policy in Latin America

Author: Richard B. Baldauf

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1847690068

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This volume covers the language situation in Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of indigenous and non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous and/or have been participants in the language-planning context. This volume contains monographs on Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay, countries which are not well represented in the recent international language policy and planning literature, and draws together the existing published research in this field. The purpose of the area volumes in this series is to present up-to-date information on polities, particularly those that are not well known to researchers in the field, thereby providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world.

Language Planning and Policy
Language Planning and Policy

Author: Anthony Liddicoat

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1847690637

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Language problems potentially exist at all levels of human activity, including he local contaxts of communities & institutions. This volume explores the ways in which language planning works as a local activity in a wide variety of contexts around the world & deals with a wide range of language planning issues.

Language Planning and Policy in Europe
Language Planning and Policy in Europe

Author: Robert B. Kaplan

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781853598135

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This text covers the language situation in Hungary, Finland, and Sweden explaining linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts, including language-in-education planning; and the roles of the media, of religion, and of minority and migrant languages. The authors have been participants in the language planning context in these polities.

Language Planning and Policy in Africa
Language Planning and Policy in Africa

Author: Richard B. Baldauf

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781853597251

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A longer-range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Language Use in the Two-Way Classroom
Language Use in the Two-Way Classroom

Author: Renée DePalma

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2010-08-05

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1847694837

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Based on an extended ethnographic study of a dual language (Spanish-English) Kindergarten, this book takes a critical look at children's linguistic (and non-linguistic) interactions and the ways that teaching design can help or hinder language development. With a focus on official “Spanish time”, it explores the particular challenges of supporting the minority language use as well as the teacher's strategies for doing so. In bilingual classrooms, teachers' goals include bilingualism as well as academic achievement for all. The children may share these interests, but have their own agendas as well. This book explores the linguistic and social interactions that may help, or hinder, these multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. How can teachers design educational practice that takes into consideration broader forces of language hegemony as well as children's immediate interests?

Literary Self-Translation in Hispanophone Contexts - La autotraducción literaria en contextos de habla hispana
Literary Self-Translation in Hispanophone Contexts - La autotraducción literaria en contextos de habla hispana

Author: Lila Bujaldón de Esteves

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 3030236250

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This edited book contributes to the growing field of self-translation studies by exploring the diversity of roles the practice has in Spanish-speaking contexts of production on both sides of the Atlantic. Part I surveys the presence of self-translation in contemporary Indigenous literatures in Spanish America, with a focus on Mexico and the Mapuche poetry of Chile and Argentina. Part II proposes to incorporate self-translation into the history of Spanish-American literatures- including its relation with colonial multilingual-translation practices, the transfers it allowed between the French and Spanish-American avant-gardes, and the insertion it offered for exiled Republicans in Mexico. Part III develops new reflections on the Iberian realm: on the choice between self and allograph translation Basque writers must face, a new category in Xosé Dasilva’s typology, based on the Galician context, and the need to expand the analysis of directionality in Catalan self-translations. This book brings together contributions from some of the leading international experts in translation and self-translation, and it will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Spanish Literature, Spanish American and Latin American Literature, and Amerindian Literatures.

Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters
Language Planning and Policy in Asia: Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and Chinese characters

Author: Robert B. Kaplan

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1847690955

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This volume covers the language situation in Japan, Nepal and Taiwan, as well as the modernisation of Chinese Characters in China, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation -- including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. Two of the authors are indigenous and the other two have been participants in the language planning context.

Discourse and Mental Health
Discourse and Mental Health

Author: Juan Eduardo Bonnin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-06

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1351331981

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This book is the result of years of fieldwork at a public hospital located in an immigrant neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It focuses on the relationships between diversity and inequality in access to mental healthcare through the discourse practices, tactics and strategies deployed by patients with widely varying cultural, linguistic and social backgrounds. As an action-research process, it helped change communicative practices at the Hospital’s outpatient mental healthcare service. The book focuses on the entire process and its outcomes, arguing in favor of a critical, situated perspective on discourse analysis, theoretically and practically oriented to social change. It also proposes a different approach to doctor-patient communication, usually conducted from an ethnocentric perspective which does not take into account cultural, social and economic diversity. It reviews many topics that are somehow classical in doctor-patient communication analysis, but from a different point of view: issues such as the sequential organization of primary care encounters, diagnostic formulations, asymmetry and accommodation, etc., are now examined from a locally grounded ethnographic perspective. This change is not only theoretical but also political, as it helps understand patient practices of resistance, identity-making and solidarity in contexts of inequality.

Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation
Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation

Author: Celine-Marie Pascale

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1412992214

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This anthology critically analyzes how cultures around the world make social categories of race, class, gender and sexuality meaningful in particular ways. The collection uses a wide range of readings to examine how contemporary issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality are constructed, mobilized, and transformed. Unlike many books in this area, the U.S. is not analytical center.