'Along the Routes to Power' Explorations of Empowerment through Language

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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Along the routes to power Section 1. Theoretical perspectives: Linguistic empowerment and language choices Sociolinguistics: More power(s) to you! (On the explicit study of power in sociolinguistic research) The power of language, the language of power Language endangerment, the construction of indigenous languages and world English The power to choose and its sociolinguistic implications How codeswitching as an available option empowers bilinguals Section 2. Language policy and language planning: Empowering speakrs of minority languages in communities and institutions Language policy failures Empowerment through the community language – A challenge Pidgins and Creoles between endangerment and empowerment: A dynamic view of empowerment in the growth and the decline of contact languages, especially in the Pacific Lost in transculturation: The case of bilingual education in New York City Language policies in Spain: Accomodation or alteration? The potential of parliaments for the empowerment of linguistic minorities: Experiences from Scotland and Norway The dominance of languages and language communities in the European Union (EU) and the consequences Section 3. The language empowerment discourse: Case studies of language policy and language planning in Africa Socio-political factors in the evolution of language policy in post-Apartheid South Africa Marginalisation and empowerment through educational medium: The case of the linguistically disadvantaged groups of Botswana and Tanzania Language policy, cultural rights and the law in Botswana We speak Otjiherero but we write in English - Disempowerment through language use in participatory extension work Empowerment through English – A realistic view of the educational promotion of English in post-colonial contexts: The case of Nigeria Life in a Tower of Babel without a language policy JK Nyerere of Tanzania and the empowerment of Swahili Living on borrowed tongues? A view from within Index