Linguistic elements such as phonemes, lexemes, and syntactic or morphological rules
cannot be taken for granted as the shape in which border-making elements come. From the …

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable
than life itself. Just what is so valued varies. In previous times, wars were fought for causes …

Syllabus Design demonstrates, in a practical way, the principles involved in planning and
designing an effective syllabus. It examines important concepts such as needs analysis …

This collection of work addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to
education, and the contribution that research in education makes to anthropology and …

On 11 May 2011, as I was preparing the final draft of this book, former American president
Bill Clinton came to speak at my university. The occasion was the opening of a new centre …

This paper explores some of the uses of local cultural identity in European rural
development, particularly in the latter's shift towards local territorial activity. It proposes the …

Language Planning is a resurgent academic discipline, reflecting the importance of
language in issues of migration, globalisation, cultural diversity, nation-building, education …

" This book argues for the need to empower African indigenous languages for greater
functions in national life. It makes an important and useful contribution to the understanding …

The aim of this book is to investigate motives for action on language. Seven seem to recur:
identity, insecurity, ideology, image, inequality, integration and instrumentality. The author …

This article raises questions about the practice of teaching minority (ethnic/immigrant)
languages as academic subjects in multilingual settings and points to directions in which the …