Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors: The Changing Politics of Language ChoiceHarold Schiffman BRILL, 2011 M12 9 - 372 pages Language policy in Central Asia, Afghanistan and the immediately surrounding neighboring countries has a long and varied history. The Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan since 2001 have left the area in a state of flux. This volume gives a better picture about what is official and explicit, what is not official but implicit or general practice, and what the likely future developments might be. It is very clear that multilingualism, whether it involves Persian, Russian or English in addition to other languages, not only has long been a part of the scene, but will probably continue to be so. The book was co-edited by Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. |
Contents
Chapter One Afghan Languages in a Larger Context of Central and South Asia | 1 |
Section I Afghanistan and Iran | 29 |
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity | 31 |
A Survey of Secondary Sources | 53 |
Language Names and Language Policies | 89 |
Section II Central Asian Republics of the Former Soviet Union | 119 |
Chapter Five Reversing Language Shift in Kazakhstan | 121 |
Chapter Six Language Policy and Language Development in Multilingual Uzbekistan | 176 |
Section III The Northwest Frontier Province and Pashto Punjabi and Balochi | 261 |
Chapter Eight Pashto Language Policy and Practice in the North West Frontier Province | 263 |
Chapter Nine A Vernacular for a New Generation? Historical Perspectives about Urdu and Punjabi and the Formation of Language Policy in Colonial... | 282 |
Towards a Biography of the Language | 319 |
Section IV Pedagogical Resources and Conclusion | 337 |
Chapter Eleven Resources for the Study of Language Policies and Languages of Afghanistan and Its Neighbors | 339 |
Chapter Twelve Conclusion | 354 |
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