Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages by Sinfree Makoni, Alastair Pennycook

Disinventing and Reconstituting Languages

Sinfree Makoni, Alastair Pennycook

272 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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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 and reconstitute the ways in which languages are ta...

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