Title Language and power : the implications of language for peace and development / Brigit Brock-Utne and Gunnar Garbo (editors)

Published Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 336 pages) : illustrations Summary Language is a tool used to express thoughts, to hide thoughts or to hide lack of thoughts. It is often a means of domination. The question is who has the power to define the world around us. This book demonstrates how language is being manipulated to form the minds of listeners or readers. Innocent words may be used to conceal a reality which people would have reacted to had the phenomena been described in a straightforward manner. The nice and innocent concept "cost sharing", which leads our thoughts to communal sharing and solidarity, may actually imply privatization. The false belief that the best way to learn a foreign language is to have it as a language of instruction actually becomes a strategy for stupidification of African pupils. In this book 33 independent experts from 16 countries in the North and the South show how language may be used to legitimize war-making, promote Northern interests in the field of development and retain colonial speech as languages of instruction, languages of the courts and in politics. The book has been edited by two Norwegians: Birgit Brock-Utne is a professor at the University of Oslo and a consultant in education and development. From 1987 until 1992 she was a professor at the University of Dar es Salaam. Gunnar Garbo, author and journalist and former member of the Norwegian Parliament, was the Norwegian Ambassador to Tanzania from 1987 to 1992 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Language and languages -- Political aspects -- Congresses Sociolinguistics -- Congresses Language and education -- Congresses Colonies -- Congresses Globalization -- Congresses Power (Social sciences) -- Congresses Development studies. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics. Colonies Globalization Language and education Language and languages -- Political aspects Power (Social sciences) Sociolinguistics Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Brock-Utne, Birgit, 1938- Garbo, Gunnar, 1924- LC no. 2011349002 ISBN 9789987081462 9987081460

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