Mother Tongues And Nations
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Mother Tongues And Nations
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Author : Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-06-29
Mother Tongues And Nations written by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This monograph examines the ideological legacy of the the apparently innocent kinship metaphors of “mother tongue” and “native speaker” by historicizing their linguistic development. It shows how the early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of national language, identity, geography, and race. This ideology invented myths of congenital communities that configured the national language in a symbiotic matrix between body and physical environment and as the ethnic and corporeal ownership of national identity and local organic nature. These ethno-nationalist gestures informed the philology of the early modern era and generated arboreal and genealogical models of language, culminating most divisively in the race conscious discourse of the Indo-European hypothesis of the 19th century. The philosophical theories of organicism also contributed to these ideologies. The fundamentally nationalist conflation of race and language was and is the catalyst for subsequent permutations of ethnolinguistic discrimination, which continue today. Scholarship should scrutinize the tendency to overextend biological metaphors in the study of language, as these can encourage, however surreptitiously, genetic and racial impressions of language.
Mother Tongues And Nations
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Author : Thomas Paul Bonfiglio
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010
Mother Tongues And Nations written by Thomas Paul Bonfiglio and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES categories.
Trends in Linguistics is a series of books that publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighboring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. Bonfiglio examines the ideological legacy of the metaphors "mother tongue" and "native speaker" by historicizing their linguistic development. The early nation states constructed the ideology of ethnolinguistic nationalism, a composite of language, identity, geography, and ethnicity that configured the national language as originating in the mother-infant relationship, as well as in local organic nature. These insular protectionist strategies generated the philologies of (early) modernity and their genetic and arboreal "families" of languages, and continue today to evoke folkloric notions that configure language ethnically. Scholarly recognition of the biological metaphors that racialize language will help to illuminate persisting gestures of ethnolinguistic discrimination.
Language Education And Nation Building
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Author : P. Sercombe
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-02
Language Education And Nation Building written by P. Sercombe and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region.
Your Mother S Tongue
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Author : Stephen Burgen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996-02-01
Your Mother S Tongue written by Stephen Burgen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-02-01 with Humor categories.
An extremely funny history of so-called bad language by a European author. He asserts that Europeans try to get along but keep treading on each other's toes. In this tour of anger, exasperation, prejudice, irony and loathing as expressed in some 20 European tongues, we learn that what is invective in one country is sweet talk in another. A single currency in Europe? Yes. A common language? Not on your life. The Guardian review states that the book's "His gently comic tone recognizes how funny, how much of a release, much bad language can be." "Entertaining, widely informed."
Mother Tongue In Modern Japanese Literature And Criticism
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Author : Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-07-28
Mother Tongue In Modern Japanese Literature And Criticism written by Takayuki Yokota-Murakami and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of ‘mother-tongue” as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language. It transcends these limitations by examining modern Japanese literature and literary criticism through modern philology, the vernacularization movement, and Korean-Japanese literature. Through the insights of recent philosophical/linguistic theories, it reveals the political problems of the notion of “mother-tongue” in literary and linguistic theories and proposes strategies to realize genuinely “exophonic” and “translational” literature beyond the confines of nation. Examining the notion of “mother-tongue” in literature and literary criticism, the author deconstructs the concept and language itself as an apparatus of nation-state in order to imagine alternative literature, genuinely creolized and heterogeneous. Offering a comparative, transnational perspective on the significance of the mother tongue in contemporary literatures, this is a key read for students of modern Japanese literature, language and culture, as well as those interested in theories of translation and bilingualism.
The Languages Of Nation
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Author : Carol Percy
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2012-07-25
The Languages Of Nation written by Carol Percy and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection brings together research on linguistic prescriptivism and social identities, in specific contemporary and historical contexts of cross-cultural contact and awareness. Providing multilingual and multidisciplinary perspectives from language studies, lexicography, literature, and cultural studies, our contributors relate language norms to frameworks of identity beyond monolingual citizenship - nativeness, ethnicity, politics, religion, empire. Some chapters focus on traditional instruments of prescriptivism: language academies in Europe; government language planners in southeast Asia; dictionaries and grammars from Early Modern and imperial Britain, republican America, the postcolonial Caribbean, and modern Germany. Other chapters consider the roles of scholars in prescriptivism, as well as the more informal and populist mechanisms of enforcement expressed in newspapers. With a thematic introduction articulating links between its breadth of perspectives, this accessible book should engage everyone concerned with language norms.
On The Margins Of Nations Endangered Languages And Linguistic Rights
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Author : Foundation for Endangered Languages. Conference
language : en
Publisher: Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Release Date : 2004-01-01
On The Margins Of Nations Endangered Languages And Linguistic Rights written by Foundation for Endangered Languages. Conference and has been published by Institut d'Estudis Catalans this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Endangered languages categories.
Language Nations And Multilingualism
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Author : Ying-Ying Tan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-30
Language Nations And Multilingualism written by Ying-Ying Tan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language, Nations, and Multilingualism explores the legacy of Herder’s ideas about the relationship between language and nationalism in the post-colonial world. Focusing on how anti-colonial and post-colonial nations reconcile their myriad multilingualisms with the Herderian model of one language-one nation, it shows how Herder’s model is both attractive and problematic for such nations. Why then does the Herderian model have such valency? How has the Herderian ideal of one nation-one language continued to survive beneath the uncomfortable resolution struck by new multilingual nations as they create fictions of a singular national mother tongue? To what extent is Herder still relevant in our contemporary world? How have different nations negotiated the Herderian ideal in different ways? What does the way in which multilingual post-colonial nations deal with this crisis tell us about a possible alternative framework for understanding the relationship between language and nation? By approaching this investigation from diverse archives across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean, Language, Nations, and Multilingualism proposes answers to the aforementioned questions from a global perspective that takes into account the specificities of a range of colonial experiences and political regimes. And by extending the discussion backwards in time to offer a more historical reading of the making of modern nations, it allows us to see how multilingualism has always disrupted constructions of monoglot nations.
Language Nation And Development In Southeast Asia
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Author : Lee Hock Guan
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Release Date : 2007
Language Nation And Development In Southeast Asia written by Lee Hock Guan and has been published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.
Foreign Language And Mother Tongue
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Author : Istvan Kecskes
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2000-06-01
Foreign Language And Mother Tongue written by Istvan Kecskes and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-01 with Education categories.
This is the first book that discusses the effect of foreign language learning on first language processing. The authors argue that multilingual development is a dynamic and cumulative process characterized by transfer of different nature, and results in a common underlying conceptual base with two or more language channels that constantly interact with each other. Language representation and processing are discussed from a cognitive-pragmatic rather than a lexical-syntactic perspective. This required the review of several crucial issues of L2 acquisition, such as transfer, vocabulary development, conceptual fluency, and pragmatic skills. The authors also reviewed a large body of literature touching on cognitive psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, SLA, philosophy, and education in order to explain multilingual development and the positive effect of foreign language learning on the first language. An important read for linguists and language educators alike, this volume: * attempts to explain multilingual development from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective, * argues that foreign language learning has a positive effect on the development and use of mother tongue skills, * relies on research findings of several different disciplines, * builds on the results of quantitative research conducted by the authors, and touches on a wide range of literature.