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Struggle for a Multilingual Future

By Davis, Christina P.

Struggle for a Multilingual Future

By Davis, Christina P.

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In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth. Facing a legacy of post-independence language and education policies that were among the complex causes of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983 - 2009), the government has recently sought to promote interethnic integration through trilingual language policies in Sinhala, Tamil, and English in state schools. Integrating ethnographic and linguistic research in and around two schools during the last phase of the war, Davis's research shows how, despite the intention of the reforms, practices on the ground reinforce language-based models of ethnicity and sustain ethnic divisions and power inequalities. By engaging with the actual experiences of Tamil and Muslim youth, Davis demonstrates the difficulties of using language policy to ameliorate ethnic conflict if it does not also address how that conflict is produced and reproduced in everyday talk.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
212
Release Date:
2020-01-21
Publication Date:
2020-01-21
Publisher:
OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190947470
ISBN13:
9780190947477
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
330 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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