Language policy in superdiverse Indonesia / Subhan Zein
- Bib ID:
- 8413285
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Zein, Subhan, author
- Description:
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- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
- ©2020
- xviii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780367029548 (hardcover)
- 0367029545 (hardcover)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 9780429019739 (electronic book)
- 9780429671074 (electronic book)
- 9780429672569 (electronic book)
- 9780429669583 (electronic book)
- Series:
- Routledge studies in sociolinguistics.
- Summary:
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"Indonesia has an extreme diversity of linguistic wealth, with 707 individual living languages by one count, or 731 languages and more than 1,100 dialects in another estimate, spoken by more than 1,300 ethnics spreading across 17,504 islands in the archipelago. Smaller, locally used indigenous languages jostle for survival alongside Indonesian as the national language, regional lingua francas, major indigenous languages, heritage languages, sign languages and world languages such as English, Arabic and Mandarin, not to mention emerging linguistic varieties and practices of language mixing. How does the government manage these languages in different domains such as education, the media, the workplace and the public while balancing concerns over language endangerment and the need for participation in the global community? Subhan Zein asserts that superdiversity is the key to understanding and assessing these intricate issues and their complicated, contested and innovative responses in the complex, dynamic and polycentric sociolinguistic landscape of Indonesia that he conceptualises as superglossia. This offers an opportunity to delve more deeply into such a context through the language and superdiversity perspective that is in ascendancy. Zein examines emerging themes that have been dominating language policy discourse including status, prestige, corpus, acquisition, cultivation, language shift and endangerment, revitalisation, linguistic genocide and imperialism, multilingual education, personnel policy, translanguaging, family language policy and global English. These topical areas are critically discussed in an integrated manner against Indonesia's elaborate socio-cultural, political and religious backdrop as well as the implementation of regional autonomy. In doing so, Zein identifies strategies for language policy to help inform scholarship and policymaking while providing a frame of reference for the adoption of the superdiversity perspective on polity-specific language policy in other parts of the world"--
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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