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Foote, Ellen

 
9780367273217: Sign Languages and Linguistic Citizenship: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Yangon Deaf Community
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ISBN 10: 0367273217 ISBN 13: 9780367273217
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020

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This critical ethnographic account of the Yangon deaf community in Myanmar offers unique insights into the dynamics of a vibrant linguistic and cultural minority community in the region and also sheds further light on broader questions around language policy.

The book examines language policies on different scales, demonstrating how unofficial policies in the local deaf school and wider Yangon deaf community impact responses to higher level interventions, namely the 2007 government policy aimed at unifying the country’s two sign languages. Foote highlights the need for a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of language policy, unpacking the interplay between language ideologies, power relations, political and moral interests and community conceptualisations of citizenship. The study’s findings are situated within wider theoretical debates within linguistic anthropology, questioning existing paradigms on the notion of linguistic authenticity and contributing to ongoing debates on the relationship between language policy and social justice.

Offering an important new contribution to critical work on language policy, the book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and language education.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ellen Foote is a researcher who received her PhD in Linguistics from the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London, in 2018.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0367273217
ISBN 13 
9780367273217
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
180
Contatto del produttore
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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