Skip to main content alibris logo
Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages - Makoni, Sinfree (Editor), and Pennycook, Alastair (Editor)
Filter Results
Shipping
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

This book questions assumptions about the nature of language. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in Indonesia to literacy practices in Brazil, the authors argue that unless we change the ways in which languages are taught and conceptualized, language studies will not be able to improve the social welfare of language users.

loading
Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages 2006, Multilingual Matters Limited, Clevedon

ISBN-13: 9781853599231

Trade paperback

Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages 2006, Multilingual Matters Limited, Clevedon

ISBN-13: 9781853599248

Hardcover