Disinventing and reconstituting languages. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sinfree Makoni and Alastair Pennycook.
• Other Names: Makoni, Sinfree; Pennycook, Alastair, 1957-
• Contents: The Contributors; Foreword Intervening Discourses, Representations and Conceptualizations of Language; Chapter 1 Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages; Chapter 2 Then There were Languages: Bahasa Indonesia was One Among Many; Chapter 3 Critical Historiography: Does Language Planning in Africa Need a Construct of Language as Part of its Theoretical Apparatus?; Chapter 4 The Myth of English as an International Language; Chapter 5 Beyond 'Language': Linguistic Imperialism, Sign Languages and Linguistic Anthropology.
• Publisher Details: Clevedon : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 249 pages)
• Subjects: 400; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy; Language and languages; Semantics; Language and languages; Semantics; Sprachpolitik; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics; Language acquisition; Bilingualism & multilingualism; Literacy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781853599255; 1853599255
• Related ISBNs: 9781853599248; 1853599247; 9781853599231; 1853599239
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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