Discrimination through language in Africa? : perspectives on the Namibian experience / edited by Martin Pütz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pütz, Martin, 1955- editor.

Series:

Contributions to the sociology of language ; 69.

Contributions to the Sociology of Language ; 69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Namibia.

Sociolinguistics.

Language planning--Namibia.

Language planning.

Language planning--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Sociolinguistics--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages).

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; New York, [New York] : Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Discrimination through Language in Africa?".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Language and colonialism in Africa - Introduction / Pütz, Martin

Section 1: Language contact and language conflict in Africa

The politics of language planning in Africa: Critical choices for the 21st century / Bokamba, Eyamba G.

Nation building and language in the new South Africa / Alexander, Neville

Empowerment of the masses through the use of African languages / Matsela, Zach A.

The growth of Kiswahili as language of education and administration in Tanzania / Batibo, Herman M.

Section 2: Language expansion and language engineering: Case studies from Africa

The technicalization of the autochthonous languages of South Africa: Constraints from a present day perspective / Webb, Victor

Marketing new lexical terminology in Nigeria: Some practical considerations / Adegbija, Efurosibina

The Somali language lexical project: Aims and methods / Puglielli, Annarita

Technicalization of the lexicon through endogenous language resources: A case from Mali / Ouane, Adama

Section 3: Language, culture and nation building: An illustration with Namibia

Official monolingualism in Africa: A sociolinguistic assessment of linguistic and cultural pluralism in Namibia / Pütz, Martin

"Our official language shall be English": The Namibian Prime Minister's perspective / Geingob, Hage G.

Language policy and language planning in Namibia / Harlech-Jones, Brian

Language and nation in Namibia: The fallacies of Modernization Theory / Beck, Anke

Section 4: The status and use of languages: Linguistic conflict in Namibia

The role of English in Namibia: A sociocultural and linguistic account / Harlech-Jones, Brian

Attitudes and language: An empirical investigation into the status and use of English in Namibia / Pütz, Martin

Lexical engineering in African languages: Exemplified through Herero / Ohly, Rajmund

The status and use of the German language in independent Namibia: Can German survive the transition? / Gretschel, Hans-Volker

Afrikaans - The unwanted lingua franca of Namibia / Fourie, Kotie

List of contributors

Index of Names

Subject Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110906677

3110906678

OCLC:

979693833