Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors

The Changing Politics of Language Choice
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20145-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

The book was co-edited by Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Language policy in Central Asia, Afghanistan and the immediately surrounding neighboring countries has a long and varied history. The Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan since 2001 have left the area in a state of flux. This volume gives a better picture about what is official and explicit, what is not official but implicit or general practice, and what the likely future developments might be. It is very clear that multilingualism, whether it involves Persian, Russian or English in addition to other languages, not only has long been a part of the scene, but will probably continue to be so.

Zielgruppe

Readers interested in sociolinguistics, language policy, ethno-linguistic conflict, South, Central, and West Asia and those interested in multilingualism and linguistic history in those areas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schiffman, Harold

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

1. Afghan Languages in the Larger Context of Central and South Asia
Harold F. Schiffman and Brian Spooner

Section I: Afghanistan and Iran

2. Language Policy in Afghanistan: Linguistic Diversity and National Unity
Senzil Nawid
3. Locating ‘Pashto’ in Afghanistan: a Survey of Secondary Sources
Walter Hakala
4. Persian, Farsi, Dari, Tajiki: Language Names and Language Policies
Brian Spooner

Section II: Central Asian Republics of the former Soviet Union

5. Reversing Language Shift in Kazakhstan
William Fierman
6. Language Policy and Language Development in Multilingual Uzbekistan
Birgit Schlyter
7. The Fate of Uzbek Language in the ‘Other’ Central Asian Republics
William Fierman

Section III: The Northwest Frontier Province and Pashto, Punjabi, and Balochi

8. Pashto Language Policy and Practice in the North West Frontier Province
Robert Nichols
9. A ‘Vernacular’ for a ‘New Generation’? Historical Perspectives about Urdu and Punjabi and the Formation of Language Policy in Colonial Northwest India
Jeffrey M. Diamond
10. Balochi: Towards a Biography of the Language
Brian Spooner

Section IV: Pedagogical Resources and Conclusion

11. Resources for the Study of Language Policies and Languages of Afghanistan and Its Neighbors
Cynthia Groff
12. Conclusion
Harold F. Schiffman

Über Autor(innen)

Schiffman, Harold
Harold F. Schiffman's research interests focus on the linguistics of the Dravidian languages, especially Tamil and, to a lesser extent, Kannada, and on the area of language policy. He has published extensively in these two areas where overlapping interests in sociolinguistics (diglossia, language standardization, multilingualism) intersect with language policy and the politics of language. He is also director of the Consortium for Language Policy and Planning.