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African languages, development and the state / edited by Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African languages--Political aspects.
- African languages.
- Language and languages--Political aspects.
- Language and languages.
- Language policy--Africa.
- Language policy.
- Language planning--Africa.
- Language planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-03-234042-8
- 1-134-86803-0
- 1-134-86804-9
- 1-280-32174-1
- 0-585-45235-0
- 9780203422571
- OCLC:
- 647379604
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