Language and Power. The Implications of Language for Peace and Development

Brock-Utne, Birgit (EDT); Garbo, Gunnar (EDT)

ISBN 10: 9987080324 / ISBN 13: 9789987080328

Published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2009

About this Item

Warmly inscribed by Birgit Brock-Utne.

PB book is in vg condition. Spine is square and intact. Light wear and curling on front bottom point of cover. Pages are bright white inside with light discoloration along bottom edge of pages. Light wear along outside edges of book and spine. Some light scratches are visible on the front cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language and Power. The Implications of Language for Peace and Development
• Publisher: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9987080324
• ISBN 13: 9789987080328
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 0.77W x 6H x 9D inches 0.77 inches width by 6 inches height by 9 inches depth
• Weight: 1.151 pounds
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Language is a tool used to express thoughts, to hide thoughts or to hide lack of thoughts. It is often a means of domination. The question is who has the power to define the world around us. This book demonstrates how language is being manipulated to form the minds of listeners or readers. Innocent words may be used to conceal a reality which people would have reacted to had the phenomena been described in a straightforward manner. The nice and innocent concept "cost sharing", which leads our thoughts to communal sharing and solidarity, may actually imply privatization. The false belief that the best way to learn a foreign language is to have it as a language of instruction actually becomes a strategy for stupidification of African pupils. In this book 33 independent experts from 16 countries in the North and the South show how language may be used to legitimize war-making, promote Northern interests in the field of development and retain colonial speech as languages of instruction, languages of the courts and in politics. The book has been edited by two Norwegians: Birgit Brock-Utne is a professor at the University of Oslo and a consultant in education and development. From 1987 until 1992 she was a professor at the University of Dar es Salaam. Gunnar Garbo, author and journalist and former member of the Norwegian Parliament, was the Norwegian Ambassador to Tanzania from 1987 to 1992.