Empowering Speakers of Unstandardized Varieties: The Awareness Approach

Title
Empowering Speakers of Unstandardized Varieties: The Awareness Approach
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Siegel, Jeff
Editor
Editor(s): Albert Weideman and Birgit Smieja
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Peter Lang
Place of publication
Frankfurt, Germany
Edition
1
Series
Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft [Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture]
UNE publication id
une:4861
Abstract
When this volume was conceived, we asked contributors to give their best answer to the question: how can empowerment be achieved through language and education? We posed the question in this way because we believe that the interface between language and education is critically important for people to become empowered. Of course, the answers we received from the scholars whose contributions are included here, ranged from the predictable to the surprising; from those whose mere narrative of a story of empowerment seems convincing and sufficient, to those who are deliberately reflective and theoretically challenging; from those who have chosen to address small-scale, local problems to those that have preferred to articulate wider, national or even international issues. All, however, answer the question seriously; some even passionately.
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Citation
Empowerment through Language and Education: Cases and Case Studies from North America, Europe, Africa and Japan, p. 21-40
ISBN
363155088X
0820498823
Start page
21
End page
40

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