Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780190947484 |
| ISBN10: | 0190947489 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 212 pages |
| Size: | 159x241x19 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 10 illustrations |
| 182 |
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The Struggle for a Multilingual Future
Youth and Education in Sri Lanka
Publisher: OUP USA
Date of Publication: 27 February 2020
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Short description:
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 during and after the civil war. Davis investigates the efficacy of national reforms in relation to how ideologies of linguistic, ethnic, religious, and class difference are reinforced and challenged in everyday interactions.
Long description:
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.
I recently included the book in a syllabus for a course consisting largely of anthropology majors and the students expressed great appreciation for its insights. This is an important landmark in the linguistic anthropology of policy and education.
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.
I recently included the book in a syllabus for a course consisting largely of anthropology majors and the students expressed great appreciation for its insights. This is an important landmark in the linguistic anthropology of policy and education.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transcription and Transliteration
Introduction
School Segregation and Language-Based Ethnic Divisions
Teachers and "Legitimate" Tamil in a Multilingual School
English and the Imagining of a Cosmopolitan City
Peer Groups and Tamil Identity in and outside Schools
Tamil Speech and Ethnic Conflict in Public Spaces
Conclusion
References
Index
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transcription and Transliteration
Introduction
School Segregation and Language-Based Ethnic Divisions
Teachers and "Legitimate" Tamil in a Multilingual School
English and the Imagining of a Cosmopolitan City
Peer Groups and Tamil Identity in and outside Schools
Tamil Speech and Ethnic Conflict in Public Spaces
Conclusion
References
Index
