Frank van Splunder

Language Is Politics

Exploring an Ecological Approach to Language

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Produktbeschreibung

Language is Politics discusses power relations between languages in the world, with a particular focus on English. With an ecological approach to language and a focus on narratives, personal language histories, this will be key reading for researchers and academics as well as students of English language and linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780367365431
• ISBN-10: 036736543X
• Artikelnr.: 58381495

Autorenporträt

Frank van Splunder teaches academic writing in a multilingual context at Linguapolis, the language centre of the University of Antwerp. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University. He is a sociolinguist with a particular interest in relations between languages and how they are used to construct identities of people and nations. The focus of his research is English as the language of globalization and its use in higher education in non-English speaking countries.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Part One Language is Politics
1. The Language Myth
2. The Origin of Language
3. Imagined Communities
4. Language as a Construction
5. The Pecking Order of Languages
6. The Power of English
7. Language and War
8. Life and Death of Languages
9. Towards an Ecological Approach to Language
Part Two Personal Language Histories
1. Aim and Scope
2. Asia
3. Africa
4. Oceania
5. Latin America
6. Europe
Acknowledgements
References
Index