Language management: a snapshot of governmentality within the private schools in Quetta, Pakistan

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• 作者：Syed Abdul Manan ; Maya Khemlani David ; Francisco Perlas Dumanig
• 关键词：Governmentality ; Language management ; English ; Urdu ; Indigenous languages ; Pakistan
• 刊名：Language Policy
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 页码：3-26
• 全文大小：597 KB
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• 作者单位：Syed Abdul Manan (1) (2)
  Maya Khemlani David (2)
  Francisco Perlas Dumanig (2)
  
  1. Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Basic Sciences, Baluchistan University of IT Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan
  2. Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Linguistics
  Applied Linguistics
  Language Education
  Sociolinguistics
  Political Science
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1863

文摘

Pakistan is a multilingual and multiethnic country; however, this diversity stands unrecognized in the formal language-in-education policies. Estimates suggest that about 90 % of children who speak over 60 indigenous languages do not have access to education in their mother tongues. Linguists estimate that exclusive teaching of Urdu and English subjects the indigenous languages to physical endangerment as well as negative perceived vitality. This study investigated the language management techniques, practices and discourses of the school authorities about indigenous languages and linguistic diversity, and its effects on perceptions of the students. The study used the theoretical framework of governmentality as introduced by Foucault in The foucault effect: studies in governmentality with two lectures by and an interview with Michael Foucault, Harvester Wheatsheaf, London, (1991), which not only focuses on the direct acts of the governing of the state apparatuses, but also addresses the indirect acts of governance that shape individual behaviors. Deploying a mixed methodology that used students of high secondary level, teachers and school principals as sampling in 11 low-fee English-medium private schools in Quetta, Pakistan, the findings suggest that school authorities exercise stringent techniques such as notices, wall paintings, penalties and occasional punishment to suppress the use of languages other than Urdu or English. Mostly, the students also show compliance to the top-down policies. Most of participants perceive indigenous languages as worthless because of their lesser role in professional development and social mobility. The study concludes that the governance methods displace the indigenous languages both physically as well as perceptually. The prevailing orientations look upon languages as commodities, profoundly downgrading the cultural, literary, aesthetic and sociolinguistic dynamics of the indigenous languages. Keywords Governmentality Language management English Urdu Indigenous languages Pakistan