In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth during and after the civil war. Davis investigates the efficacy of national reforms in relation to how ideologies of linguistic, ethnic, religious, and class difference are reinforced and challenged in everyday interactions.
In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth during and after the civil war. Davis investigates the efficacy of national reforms in relation to how ideologies of linguistic, ethnic, religious, and class difference are reinforced and challenged in everyday interactions.
Christina P. Davis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Illinois University.
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List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Transcription and Transliteration Introduction School Segregation and Language-Based Ethnic Divisions Teachers and "Legitimate" Tamil in a Multilingual School English and the Imagining of a Cosmopolitan City Peer Groups and Tamil Identity in and outside Schools Tamil Speech and Ethnic Conflict in Public Spaces Conclusion References Index
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Transcription and Transliteration Introduction School Segregation and Language-Based Ethnic Divisions Teachers and "Legitimate" Tamil in a Multilingual School English and the Imagining of a Cosmopolitan City Peer Groups and Tamil Identity in and outside Schools Tamil Speech and Ethnic Conflict in Public Spaces Conclusion References Index
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