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This book addresses the importance of language in matters of sustainability and incorporating such concerns in implementing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainable language policy must aim to include all groups, including language minorities and marginalized populations, such as refugees and aid recipients, in conditions that allow for their inclusion in making and implementing policy. The book brings together nine studies covering such topics as language and digital resources, sustainable and inclusive multilingual education, national language policy, and language in peacekeeping operations. A final chapter addresses the crucial intersection between sociolinguistics and economics, and the implications of this for development and the SDGs.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Diversity of Language, Unity of Purpose.- 2. Language and the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges to Language Policy and Planning.- 3. Language, Digital Resources and the Sustainable Development Goals.- 4. Sustainable Multilingual Education.- 5. The Sustainability of Multilingualism from Home to Pre-School Contexts: Three Case Studies from Europe.- 6. Realising Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education in South Africa: Achievements and Obstacles on the Language in Education Front.- 7. In Pursuit of Sustainable Educational Development: The Philippines and the English Dilemma.- 8. Primary and Secondary Language Use in Peacekeeping and Stabilization Operations: A Preliminary to Sustainability.- 9. The Connections between Sociolinguistics and Economics, and their Implications for Sustainability.- Afterword: A Dedication.- Index.
Bericht
"Language and Sustainable Development (LSD) provides a timely, detailed, and evidence-informed response. The book also presents substantial evidence to comment on the relationship between language and development from a global perspective. The achievement of these dual goals marks the volume's noteworthy contribution to language-development scholarship. ... Contributed by a group of leading scholars, LSD is the product of expertise and experience from global, regional, and national contexts." (M. Obaidul Hamid, Language Policy, Vol. 23 (1), 2024)
