'Along the Routes to Power'
Explorations of Empowerment through Language
Published on 1. January 2006
Book
Mixed media product
XXI, 426 pages
978-3-11-179400-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held in 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. It constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists who explore the interdisciplinary area of language and power. The papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language policy and language planning situations in multilingual settings, code switches, and associated topics. The fate of African minority languages and their speakers is of particular concern.
Reviews / Votes
"[...] an outstanding volume addressing an important and timely issue. Along the routes to Power is cogent, thoughtfully constucted, and not only meets high academic standards and levels, but also provides a compelling case for why issues of language and power are important both for sociolinguists and for others concerned with social justice."Timothy Reagan in: Language Problems and Language Planning 1/2008 "This book contains powerful and persuasive writing from a team of top international scholars. It is ground-breaking by impressively focusing on how power and empowerment are foundational to the health and prospect of all the world's languages. This book announces the centrality of the 'sociolinguistics of power' by confronting researchers, teachers, and planners across various language and cultural disciplines with 'power and empowerment' as crucial to any modern understanding of languages."Colin Baker, University of Bangor, WalesMore details
Persons
Martin Pütz, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany; Joshua A. Fishman, Stanford University, New York University,& City University of New York, USA; JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.