Author: K. K. Prah
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783924441692
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 87

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Author: Kwesi Kwaa Prah
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ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316558681
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Development is based on communication through language. With more than two thousand languages being used in Africa, language becomes a highly relevant factor in all sectors of political, social, cultural and economic life. This important sociolinguistic dimension hitherto remains underrated and under-researched in 'Western' mainstream development studies. The book discusses the resourcefulness of languages, both local and global, in view of the ongoing transformation of African societies as much as for economic development. From a novel 'applied African sociolinguistics' perspective it analyses the continuing effects of linguistic imperialism on postcolonial African societies, in particular regarding the educational sector, through imposed hegemonic languages such as Arabic and the ex-colonial languages of European provenance. It offers a broad interdisciplinary scientific approach to the linguistic dimensions of sociocultural modernisation and economic development in Africa, written for both the non-linguistically trained reader as much as for the linguistically trained researcher and language practitioner.

Author: K. K. Prah
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Association for the Development of African Languages in Education, Science, and Technology. International Conference
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Category : Linguistic minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107088550
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.

Author: Birgit Brock-Utne
Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd
ISBN: 1873927177
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training, language policy, lexical development, harmonization efforts, information technology, oral literature and deaf communities. The co-existence of these African languages with English, French and Arabic is examined as well. This wide range of languages and subjects builds on recent field work, giving new empirical evidence from 17 countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as to transnational matters like the harmonization of African transborder languages. As the Editors – a Norwegian social scientist and a Norwegian linguist, both working in Africa – have wanted to give room for African voices, the majority of contributions to this volume come from Africa.

Author: Andrew Simpson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191536814
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the nations of the Horn, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Each chapter describes and examines the country's linguistic and political history and the relation of its languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identities, and assesses the relative status of majority and minority languages and the role of language in ethnic conflict. Of the book's authors, fifteen are from Africa and seven from Europe and the USA. Jargon-free, fully referenced, and illustrated with seventeen maps, this book will be of value to a wide range of readers in linguistics, politics, history, sociology, and anthropology. It will interest everyone wishing to understand the dynamic interactions between language and politics in Africa, in the past and now.

Author: Joachim Friedrich Pfaffe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and education
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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