African languages, development and the state
edited by Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss.
Bok Engelsk 1994 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | London ; New York : : Routledge, , 1994.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (267 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: Frontiers and boundaries; African languages as political environment; Pride and prejudice in multilingualism and development; Official and unofficial attitudes and policy towards Krio as the main lingua franca in Sierra Leone; The politics of language in Benin; Minority language development in Nigeria: a situation report on Rivers and Bendel States; Using existing structures: three phases of mother tongue literacy among Chumburung speakers in Ghana; The language situation and language use in Mozambique. - Language and the struggle for racial equality in the development of a non-racial Southern African nationDismantling the Tower of Babel: in search of a new language policy for a post-Apartheid South Africa; Healthy production and reproduction: agricultural, medical and linguistic pluralism in a Bwisha community, Eastern Zare; Minority language, ethnicity and the state in two African situations: the Nkoya of Zambia and the Kalanga of Botswana; Loanwords in Oromo and Rendille as a mirror of past inter-ethnic relations. - The metaphors of development and modernization in Tanzanian language policy and researchLanguage, government and the play on purity and impurity: Arabic, Swahili and the vernaculars in Kenya; Name index; Subject index. - This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development
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| Emner | African languages - Political aspects
Language and languages - Political aspects Language planning - Africa Language policy - Africa Vis mer... Afrika
Språkplanlegging Språkpolitikk sosialantropologer minoriteter språkkonflikt språkpolitikk språk afrika politikk antropologi språkplanlegging minoritetsspråk språkhistorie |
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| ISBN | 0415094763
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