Negotiating Multiculturalism: Disciplini
β Nirmala Srirekam Purushotam
π Library
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2000
π De Gruyter Mouton
π English
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Negotiating Language, Constructing Race: Disciplining Difference in Singapore
β Scribed by Nirmala Srirekam Purushotam
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 304
- Series
- Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL], 79
- Edition
- Reprint 2011
- Category
- Library
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.
It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.
The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
β¦ Table of Contents
βNationβ and βRaceβ: realms of problematic possibilities for language
Race-ing language: the institutionalisation of βChineseβ, βMalayβ, and βIndianβ in Singapore
Talk about language: from political project to daily life positionings
Language on the life trajectory: Everyday Life contexts, relevances and practices
The mother tongue: male texts and female readings
Second language: official bilingualism brought home
Disciplining difference
Notes
References
Index
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