Selma K Sonntag
Biographic Data
| ID | 148041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Selma K Sonntag |
| GIVEN NAMES | Selma K |
| FAMILY NAME | Sonntag |
| SIGNATURE | SONNTAG S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cal Poly Humboldt |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Change and Permanence in Language Politics in Nepal
The absolute monarchy was reduced to a constitutional monarchy, and governing was turned over to a democratically elected parliamentary regime. The Nepali-only policy of the absolute monarchy was discarded in favor of an official language policy that recognized Nepal&s;s linguistic diversity. In 2005 the King of Nepal turned back the clock on political democratization that had been ticking, slowly, since 1990. The patterns of political change and…
Traditions étatiques et régimes linguistiques: Comment et pourquoi s’opèrent les choix de politiques linguistiques
Grâce à la combinaison des concepts de régime linguistique et de traditions étatiques et des outils d’analyse de la politique comparée, aux premiers rangs desquelles nous retrouvons les notions de dépendance au sentier et de points tournants, l’article propose une approche pour expliquer les choix de politiques linguistiques au sein des différents États. Les auteurs soutiennent que même lorsque les traditions étatiques dans un pays peuvent repose…
La diversité linguistique et la mondialisation: Les limites des théories libérales
Le texte a pour objectif d’examiner ce que disent la théorie politique et la sociolinguistique sur la question de l’anglais mondial ( global English ). Il explore la façon dont les théories libérales de l’accommodement étatique de la diversité linguistique peuvent être utilisées sur le plan mondial et compare celles-ci aux préoccupations des sociolinguistes envers l’anglais mondial. Le texte conclut au besoin d’une alternative et propose une appr…
Linguistic globalization and the call center industry: Imperialism, hegemony or cosmopolitanism
Appropriating Identity or Cultivating Capital: Global English in Offshoring Service Industries
Appropriating Identity or Cultivating Capital? Global English in Offshoring Service Industries
In the popular media, much has been made of the adoption of American identities by Indian nationals working in call centers in urban India. In the transactions between call center workers in India and their American customers, language is often the only conveyor of cultural identity. The implications of this linguistic globalization are drawn out by examining the historical trajectory of the politics of global English in India. I argue that the i…
Autonomous Councils in India: Contesting the Liberal Nation-State
remember, as a small child, making an annual summer pilgrimage to Montana with my family to visit grandparents. As our pink station wagon hummed along the two-lane interstate highways, would look out the window at the big-sky wheat-filled country, bored, and demand of my father, Where are we? Glancing out his window, he would impatiently respond with a relational positioning (50 miles from Shelby) or a vague the countryside. No, would insist, I w…
The political saliency of language in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Ethnolinguistic identity and language policy in Nepal
Nepal has recently been replacing its monolingual, Nepali‐only, assimilationist policy of the past with a new multilingual policy in education and broadcasting based on ethnolinguistic differentiation. This article analyses the impact on two groups: the response of the Tamang is spurring forward the creation of a pan‐Tamang ethnic identity; conversely the response of the Tharus is to create a language to add to the belongings of their imagined co…
The politics of compromise: The Enactment of Regional Unilingualism
L'article examine la politique de compromis qui a fait suite au conflit linguistique en Belgique en 1930. La decision d'un unilinguisme regional dans les deux lois de 1932 (une loi sur la langue de l'administration, une loi sur la langue de l'education primaire et secondaire) represente une victoire pour les Flamands et une defaite pour les francophones
Introduction: Language legislation and the schools
The US national defense education act: Failure of supply‐side language legislation
The United States Congress passed the National Defense Education Act in 1958 in an attempt to create a reserve army of scientists and foreign language experts. I argue that the legislation failed to accomplish its goal in regard to the foreign language component of the Act because Congress neglected to create a demand for foreign language experts in addition to the supply. The neglect stemmed from the way the need for foreign language skills was …
The school as a bargaining point in language politics: The Belgian language law of 1932
It is commonly held that the French‐speaking population of Flanders, living mostly in the Brussels area, lost out heavily when Dutch was made the sole medium of instruction in their primary and secondary schools in 1932. The French speakers, it is argued, accepted the linguistic defeat out because in non‐linguistic terms it was also a victory for them, as political Liberals, over conservative Catholicism, since private Catholic schools would be t…
Linguistic Denial and Linguistic Self-Denial: American Ideologies of Language
La negatión y la auto-negación lingüística: Las ideologías del lenguaje en Estados Unidos El norteamericano demuestra múltiples y altercantes percepciones, creencias, actitudes y marieras de razonar en cuanto a argumentas concernientes a la política del idioma. Sin embargo, las principales ideologías norteamericanas relativas al idioma son semejantes en cuanto a su negación de inigualdad lingüistica: su existencia, sus consecuencias y la posibili…
Language Planning and Policy in Nepal
The paper is an historical account of language planning and policy in Nepal, from the period of the first unification of Nepal in the 1700's up until the present day, with comments on possible future trends. Emphasis is placed on the period after 1951, when the Rana regime was first replaced by democratic experimentation and later by monarchal rule. The language policy of this post-1951 period is illustrated in the paper by co-ordinating governme…
Linguistic globalization and the call center industry: Imperialism, hegemony or cosmopolitanism
Appropriating Identity or Cultivating Capital? Global English in Offshoring Service Industries
In the popular media, much has been made of the adoption of American identities by Indian nationals working in call centers in urban India. In the transactions between call center workers in India and their American customers, language is often the only conveyor of cultural identity. The implications of this linguistic globalization are drawn out by examining the historical trajectory of the politics of global English in India. I argue that the i…
Linguistic Denial and Linguistic Self-Denial: American Ideologies of Language
La negatión y la auto-negación lingüística: Las ideologías del lenguaje en Estados Unidos El norteamericano demuestra múltiples y altercantes percepciones, creencias, actitudes y marieras de razonar en cuanto a argumentas concernientes a la política del idioma. Sin embargo, las principales ideologías norteamericanas relativas al idioma son semejantes en cuanto a su negación de inigualdad lingüistica: su existencia, sus consecuencias y la posibili…
Autonomous Councils in India: Contesting the Liberal Nation-State
remember, as a small child, making an annual summer pilgrimage to Montana with my family to visit grandparents. As our pink station wagon hummed along the two-lane interstate highways, would look out the window at the big-sky wheat-filled country, bored, and demand of my father, Where are we? Glancing out his window, he would impatiently respond with a relational positioning (50 miles from Shelby) or a vague the countryside. No, would insist, I w…
The political saliency of language in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Ethnolinguistic identity and language policy in Nepal
Nepal has recently been replacing its monolingual, Nepali‐only, assimilationist policy of the past with a new multilingual policy in education and broadcasting based on ethnolinguistic differentiation. This article analyses the impact on two groups: the response of the Tamang is spurring forward the creation of a pan‐Tamang ethnic identity; conversely the response of the Tharus is to create a language to add to the belongings of their imagined co…
Traditions étatiques et régimes linguistiques: Comment et pourquoi s’opèrent les choix de politiques linguistiques
Grâce à la combinaison des concepts de régime linguistique et de traditions étatiques et des outils d’analyse de la politique comparée, aux premiers rangs desquelles nous retrouvons les notions de dépendance au sentier et de points tournants, l’article propose une approche pour expliquer les choix de politiques linguistiques au sein des différents États. Les auteurs soutiennent que même lorsque les traditions étatiques dans un pays peuvent repose…
Appropriating Identity or Cultivating Capital: Global English in Offshoring Service Industries
The politics of compromise: The Enactment of Regional Unilingualism
L'article examine la politique de compromis qui a fait suite au conflit linguistique en Belgique en 1930. La decision d'un unilinguisme regional dans les deux lois de 1932 (une loi sur la langue de l'administration, une loi sur la langue de l'education primaire et secondaire) represente une victoire pour les Flamands et une defaite pour les francophones
Language Planning and Policy in Nepal
The paper is an historical account of language planning and policy in Nepal, from the period of the first unification of Nepal in the 1700's up until the present day, with comments on possible future trends. Emphasis is placed on the period after 1951, when the Rana regime was first replaced by democratic experimentation and later by monarchal rule. The language policy of this post-1951 period is illustrated in the paper by co-ordinating governme…
Linguistic Denial and Linguistic Self-Denial: American Ideologies of Language
La negatión y la auto-negación lingüística: Las ideologías del lenguaje en Estados Unidos El norteamericano demuestra múltiples y altercantes percepciones, creencias, actitudes y marieras de razonar en cuanto a argumentas concernientes a la política del idioma. Sin embargo, las principales ideologías norteamericanas relativas al idioma son semejantes en cuanto a su negación de inigualdad lingüistica: su existencia, sus consecuencias y la posibili…
The school as a bargaining point in language politics: The Belgian language law of 1932
It is commonly held that the French‐speaking population of Flanders, living mostly in the Brussels area, lost out heavily when Dutch was made the sole medium of instruction in their primary and secondary schools in 1932. The French speakers, it is argued, accepted the linguistic defeat out because in non‐linguistic terms it was also a victory for them, as political Liberals, over conservative Catholicism, since private Catholic schools would be t…
Introduction: Language legislation and the schools
The US national defense education act: Failure of supply‐side language legislation
The United States Congress passed the National Defense Education Act in 1958 in an attempt to create a reserve army of scientists and foreign language experts. I argue that the legislation failed to accomplish its goal in regard to the foreign language component of the Act because Congress neglected to create a demand for foreign language experts in addition to the supply. The neglect stemmed from the way the need for foreign language skills was …
The politics of compromise: The Enactment of Regional Unilingualism
L'article examine la politique de compromis qui a fait suite au conflit linguistique en Belgique en 1930. La decision d'un unilinguisme regional dans les deux lois de 1932 (une loi sur la langue de l'administration, une loi sur la langue de l'education primaire et secondaire) represente une victoire pour les Flamands et une defaite pour les francophones
Ethnolinguistic identity and language policy in Nepal
Nepal has recently been replacing its monolingual, Nepali‐only, assimilationist policy of the past with a new multilingual policy in education and broadcasting based on ethnolinguistic differentiation. This article analyses the impact on two groups: the response of the Tamang is spurring forward the creation of a pan‐Tamang ethnic identity; conversely the response of the Tharus is to create a language to add to the belongings of their imagined co…
The political saliency of language in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Autonomous Councils in India: Contesting the Liberal Nation-State
remember, as a small child, making an annual summer pilgrimage to Montana with my family to visit grandparents. As our pink station wagon hummed along the two-lane interstate highways, would look out the window at the big-sky wheat-filled country, bored, and demand of my father, Where are we? Glancing out his window, he would impatiently respond with a relational positioning (50 miles from Shelby) or a vague the countryside. No, would insist, I w…
Appropriating Identity or Cultivating Capital: Global English in Offshoring Service Industries
Appropriating Identity or Cultivating Capital? Global English in Offshoring Service Industries
In the popular media, much has been made of the adoption of American identities by Indian nationals working in call centers in urban India. In the transactions between call center workers in India and their American customers, language is often the only conveyor of cultural identity. The implications of this linguistic globalization are drawn out by examining the historical trajectory of the politics of global English in India. I argue that the i…
Linguistic globalization and the call center industry: Imperialism, hegemony or cosmopolitanism
La diversité linguistique et la mondialisation: Les limites des théories libérales
Le texte a pour objectif d’examiner ce que disent la théorie politique et la sociolinguistique sur la question de l’anglais mondial ( global English ). Il explore la façon dont les théories libérales de l’accommodement étatique de la diversité linguistique peuvent être utilisées sur le plan mondial et compare celles-ci aux préoccupations des sociolinguistes envers l’anglais mondial. Le texte conclut au besoin d’une alternative et propose une appr…
Traditions étatiques et régimes linguistiques: Comment et pourquoi s’opèrent les choix de politiques linguistiques
Grâce à la combinaison des concepts de régime linguistique et de traditions étatiques et des outils d’analyse de la politique comparée, aux premiers rangs desquelles nous retrouvons les notions de dépendance au sentier et de points tournants, l’article propose une approche pour expliquer les choix de politiques linguistiques au sein des différents États. Les auteurs soutiennent que même lorsque les traditions étatiques dans un pays peuvent repose…
Change and Permanence in Language Politics in Nepal
The absolute monarchy was reduced to a constitutional monarchy, and governing was turned over to a democratically elected parliamentary regime. The Nepali-only policy of the absolute monarchy was discarded in favor of an official language policy that recognized Nepal&s;s linguistic diversity. In 2005 the King of Nepal turned back the clock on political democratization that had been ticking, slowly, since 1990. The patterns of political change and…
Political science (13 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)