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<html> <head><meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></head> <body> <P>The present volume grew out of the <I>30th International LAUD Symposium</I>, held on April 19&#8211;22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of power and/or empowerment as observed in the status and use of language(s) and their speakers in bilingual and multilingual communities. The book discusses the theoretical issues inherent in the relation between language and power, the empowerment strategies involved in language policy and language planning situations, and the issue of language endangerment in Africa, i.e., the fate of minority languages and their speakers and the sociopolitical factors perpetuating their exclusion from access to knowledge and skills.</P> <P>The volume constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists from many countries who explore the exciting interdisciplinary area of language, power, and linguistic empowerment. Broadly speaking, the papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language pol

Author

Martin Pütz; Joshua A Fishman; JoAnne Neff- van Aertselaer

Publisher

De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110185997