Overview
Language is a sensitive issue in the developing world, because language choice and behaviour are integral to the social, economic and political stability of multicultural societies. To what extent does this argument hold? Does language make a difference when it comes to development, and is there a perceptible difference in development between countries that is attributable to their choice of language? This book sets out to answer these questions by investigating how language has been and is being used in four countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (i.e. Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam), especially in the critical areas of education, health, the economy and governance.
Full Product Details
Author: Paulin G. Djité
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Volume: v. 144
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781847693402
ISBN 10: 1847693407
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 06 January 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Paulin Djite poses a provocative but justified question: are students of language being preciousA about links between language capability and material opportunity? No such student will remain precious after reading this important companion to Djite's Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa. In fine detail but with a strong linking narrative, Djite shows how for the wider Greater Mekong Sub-Region and its constituent states of Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, personal advancement, economic success, national development and human resource planning are intimately and intricately structured according to the distribution of language and literacy skills. These connections are as reliable as are ties between human expressive abilities with personal and national identity. This is a fine and important volume due to this theoretical claim as much as for its welcome contribution to knowledge about language and development in the region and countries of the Greater Mekong area of SE Asia. Joseph Lo Bianco, Professor of Language and Literacy Education, University of Melbourne and President, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Author Information
Paulin Djite is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, Translation and Interpreting and French Linguistics in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney. He also acts as an adviser for many international organisations in education, translation and interpreting, and international sporting events. His previous books include The Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa (2008), From Language Policy to Language Planning: An Overview of Key Languages in Australia (1994), and Voir l'Amerique et mourir (1992).
