Language Difference : Language and Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-Regi...

Description: All With TRACKED POST AUSTRALIA WIDE !! Sent Same Day or next Business day !! Packaging Always with thought & Care !! The Language Difference: Language and Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region 2011 Great Britain Hardcover No Names No inscriptions No Writing anywhere No loose or missing pages All lettering and illustrations are crisp and clear EXCELLENT Binding Considered Very good Any concerns regarding condition please ask before purchasing. Selling as is " 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". " Paulin Djit 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, Djit 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 ". All Items come from a Smoke and Pet Free Home All items are actual photos, and they form part of description. Can Combine Postage, Please message me before payment so can organize.

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