Language and Power : the Implications of Language for Peace and Development.

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Language is a tool used to express thoughts, to hide thoughts or to hide lack of thoughts. It is often a means of domination. The question is who has the power to define the world around us. This book demonstrates how language is being manipulated to form the minds of listeners or readers. Innocent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brock-Utne, Birgit, 1938- (Editor ), Garbo, Gunnar, 1924- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers 2009.
Temas:
Colonies > Congresses.
Globalization > Congresses.
Language and languages > Political aspects > Congresses.
Power (Social sciences) > Congresses.
Language and education > Congresses.
Sociolinguistics > Congresses.
Colonies > Congrès.
Mondialisation > Congrès.
Langage et langues > Aspect politique > Congrès.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > Congrès.
Sociolinguistique > Congrès.
Colonies
Globalization
Language and education
Language and languages > Political aspects
Power (Social sciences)
Sociolinguistics
Electronic resource.
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction
  • Language is Power; Language in the Security Discourse; Carol Cohn: International Security, Language and Gender; Lothar Brock: The Problematic Securitisation Debates; Gunnar Garbo: Selling Wars; Berenice Carroll: Feminist Deconstructions of the Wars on Terrorism; Evelyne Accad: Cancer speaks in War Language; The Discourse of Globalization; Paul Vieille: Globalization and the Walls; Jill Bystydzienski: Gender, Language and Globalization
  • Macleans A. Geo-JaJa: Can Globalization in Nigeria's Niger Delta Be Humanised for Integration and Development?Judit Balázs: The Impact of Globalization on Knowledge and Security; Development Speak; Steven J. Klees: The Language of Education and Development; Robert Arnove: Who Names the World with What Consequences?; egine Mehl: Whose Education for All? The Need for Teaching Global Governance in the Light of Birgit Brock-Utne's Findings; Øyvind Østerud: Evolving metaphors of development; The Language of Instruction in Africa; Kwesi Kwaa Prah: The Language of Instruction: Conundrum in Africa
  • The Language of Instruction in Africa Kwesi Kwaa Prah: The Language of Instruction: Conundrum in Africa; Adama Ouane: My Journey to and through a Multilingual Landscape; Adama Ouane: My Journey to and through a Multilingual Landscape; Ingse Skattum: French or National Languages as Means of Instruction? Reflections on French Domination and Possible Future Changes; Ingse Skattum: French or National Languages as Means of Instruction?; Harold Herman: The start and progress of a Language of Instruction research Project in Africa
  • the Spirit of Bagamoyo
  • Harold Herman: The start and progress of a Language of Instruction research Project in Africa
  • the Spirit of Bagamoyo Ladislau Semali: Indigenous Pedagogies and Languages for Peace and Development; Ladislau Semali: Indigenous Pedagogies and Languages for Peace and Development; Indigenous Knowledge, Language and Culture; Jennifer Hays: The Other Side of ""All"": Comparing Global Discourses of Education with a Community's Strategic Choices
  • the Case of the Nyae Nyae Ju/'hoansi in Namibia
  • Rodney Kofi Hopson: "Oshinglisha oshapi eyi etia teka": English, Colonial Power and Education in 20th Century Owambo and 21st century Namibia Anders Breidlid: Education, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development in an African Context; Roger Avenstrup: Discoursing E-Value-ation: The Values Dimension; The Language of Instruction in Other Colonial Contexts; Carolyne Dyer: Language, Literacy and Social Equity in Indian Government Schools; Lakshman Punchi Weddirage: Science Education and English Medium: The Sri Lankan Experience

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