LEADER 03997nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910450984403321 005 20210614233016.0 010 $a1-280-70538-8 010 $a9786610705382 010 $a1-85359-925-5 024 7 $a10.21832/9781853599255 035 $a(CKB)1000000000337010 035 $a(EBL)278981 035 $a(OCoLC)560208513 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139932 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11147755 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139932 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10028269 035 $a(PQKB)11378481 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC278981 035 $a(DE-B1597)513652 035 $a(OCoLC)84738258 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781853599255 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL278981 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10153077 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL70538 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000337010 100 $a20060428d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDisinventing and reconstituting languages$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook 210 $aClevedon $cMultilingual Matters$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aBilingual education and bilingualism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-85359-923-9 311 0 $a1-85359-924-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tThe Contributors --$tForeword --$tChapter 1. Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages --$tChapter 2. Then There were Languages: Bahasa Indonesia was One Among Many --$tChapter 3. Critical Historiography: Does Language Planning in Africa Need a Construct of Language as Part of its Theoretical Apparatus? --$tChapter 4. The Myth of English as an International Language --$tChapter 5. Beyond ?Language?: Linguistic Imperialism, Sign Languages and Linguistic Anthropology --$tChapter 6. Entering a Culture Quietly: Writing and Cultural Survival in Indigenous Education in Brazil --$tChapter 7. A Linguistics of Communicative Activity --$tChapter 8. (Dis)inventing Discourse: Examples from Black Culture and Hiphop Rap/ Discourse --$tChapter 9 .Educational Materials Reflecting Heteroglossia: Disinventing Ethnolinguistic Differences in Bosnia- Herzegovina --$tChapter 10. After Disinvention: Possibilities for Communication, Community and Competence --$tIndex 330 $aThis book questions assumptions about the nature of language and how language is conceptualized. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, from hip-hop in the US to education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this book forcefully argues that a critique of common linguistic and metalinguistic suppositions is not only a conceptual but also a sociopolitical necessity. Just as many notions of language are highly suspect, so too are many related concepts premised on a notion of discrete languages, such as language rights, mother tongues, multilingualism, or code-switching. Definitions of language in language policies, education and assessment have material and often harmful consequences for people. Unless we actively engage with the history of invention of languages in order to radically change and reconstitute the ways in which languages are taught and conceptualized, language studies will not be able to improve the social welfare of language users. 410 0$aBilingual education and bilingualism. 606 $aLanguage and languages 606 $aSemantics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLanguage and languages. 615 0$aSemantics. 676 $a400 701 $aMakoni$b Sinfree$0937412 701 $aPennycook$b Alastair$f1957-$0626945 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450984403321 996 $aDisinventing and reconstituting languages$92470185 997 $aUNINA