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Language is a sensitive issue in the developing world, because language choice and behaviour are integral to the social, economic and political stability of multicultural societies. To what extent does this argument hold? Does language make a difference when it comes to development, and is there a perceptible difference in development between countries that is attributable to their choice of language? This book sets out to answer these questions by investigating how language has been and is being used in four countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (i.e. Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar and Viet Nam), especially in the critical areas of education, health, the economy and governance.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Chapter 1 Language and Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-region Chapter 2 Language and Education in the Greater Mekong Sub-region Chapter 3 Language and Health in the Greater Mekong Sub-region Chapter 4 Language and the Economy in the Greater Mekong Sub-region Chapter 5 Language and Governance in the Greater Mekong Sub-region Chapter 6 The Language Difference

About the Author :
Paulin Djité is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, Translation and Interpreting and French Linguistics in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney. He also acts as an adviser for many international organisations in education, translation and interpreting, and international sporting events. His previous books include The Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa (2008), From Language Policy to Language Planning: An Overview of Key Languages in Australia (1994), and Voir l'Amérique et mourir (1992).

Review :
Paulin Djité poses a provocative but justified question: are students of language being 'precious' about links between language capability and material opportunity? In fine detail but with a strong linking narrative, Djité shows how personal advancement, economic success, national development and human resource planning are intimately and intricately structured according to the distribution of language and literacy skills. These connections are as reliable as are ties between human expressive abilities with personal and national identity. This is a fine and important volume due to this theoretical claim as much as for its welcome contribution to knowledge about language and development in the region and countries of the Greater Mekong area of SE Asia. Beyond its value as a detailed account of language and development in polities that are little studied, the book reminds those of us for whom language is a passion that we must not become trapped in silo-like disciplinary mentalities. Rather, if we wish to understand how language planning works, we need to explore the connections in and our assumptions about languages in the wider sociolinguistic reality. Only then will we understand how and why languages matter.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847693419
  • Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 144 Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN-10: 1847693415
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jan 2011
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: Language and Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region


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