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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815131703321

Titolo

Language and power : the implications of language for peace and development / / Brigit Brock-Utne and Gunnar Garbo (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, c2009

ISBN

1-283-00507-7

9786613005076

9987-08-146-0

9987-08-133-9

9987-10-258-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Brock-UtneBirgit <1938->

GarboGunnar <1924->

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Language and languages - Political aspects

Sociolinguistics

Language and education

Colonies

Globalization

Power (Social sciences)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from the IMPLAN (Implications of Language for Peace and Development) conference held at the University of Oslo on May 3-4, 2008.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Language is Power; Language in the Security Discourse; Carol Cohn: International Security, Language and Gender; Lothar Brock: The Problematic Securitisation Debates; Gunnar Garbo: Selling Wars; Berenice Carroll: Feminist Deconstructions of the Wars on Terrorism; Evelyne Accad: Cancer speaks in War Language; The Discourse of Globalization; Paul Vieille: Globalization and the Walls; Jill Bystydzienski: Gender, Language and Globalization

Macleans A. Geo-JaJa: Can Globalization in Nigeria's Niger Delta Be Humanised for Integration and Development?Judit Balázs: The Impact of Globalization on Knowledge and Security; Development Speak; Steven J.



Klees: The Language of Education and Development; Robert Arnove: Who Names the World with What Consequences?; egine Mehl: Whose Education for All? The Need for Teaching Global Governance in the Light of Birgit Brock-Utne's Findings; Øyvind Østerud: Evolving metaphors of development; The Language of Instruction in Africa; Kwesi Kwaa Prah: The Language of Instruction: Conundrum in Africa

The Language of Instruction in Africa Kwesi Kwaa Prah: The Language of Instruction: Conundrum in Africa; Adama Ouane: My Journey to and through a Multilingual Landscape; Adama Ouane: My Journey to and through a Multilingual Landscape; Ingse Skattum: French or National Languages as Means of Instruction? Reflections on French Domination and Possible Future Changes; Ingse Skattum: French or National Languages as Means of Instruction?; Harold Herman: The start and progress of a Language of Instruction research Project in Africa - the Spirit of Bagamoyo

Harold Herman: The start and progress of a Language of Instruction research Project in Africa - the Spirit of Bagamoyo Ladislau Semali: Indigenous Pedagogies and Languages for Peace and Development; Ladislau Semali: Indigenous Pedagogies and Languages for Peace and Development; Indigenous Knowledge, Language and Culture; Jennifer Hays: The Other Side of ""All"": Comparing Global Discourses of Education with a Community's Strategic Choices - the Case of the Nyae Nyae Ju/'hoansi in Namibia

Rodney Kofi Hopson: "Oshinglisha oshapi eyi etia teka": English, Colonial Power and Education in 20th Century Owambo and 21st century Namibia Anders Breidlid: Education, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development in an African Context; Roger Avenstrup: Discoursing E-Value-ation: The Values Dimension; The Language of Instruction in Other Colonial Contexts; Carolyne Dyer: Language, Literacy and Social Equity in Indian Government Schools; Lakshman Punchi Weddirage: Science Education and English Medium: The Sri Lankan Experience

Indigenous Knowledge, Language and Culture...209Jennifer Hays: The Other

Sommario/riassunto

Language is a tool used to express thoughts, to hide thoughts or to hide lack of thoughts. It is often a means of domination. The question is who has the power to define the world around us. This book demonstrates how language is being manipulated to form the minds of listeners or readers. Innocent words may be used to conceal a reality which people would have reacted to had the phenomena been described in a straightforward manner. The nice and innocent concept ""cost sharing"", which leads our thoughts to communal sharing and solidarity, may actually imply privatization. The false belief that