03612oam 2200685I 450 991045562050332120200520144314.01-134-86804-91-280-32174-10-585-45235-010.4324/9780203422571 (CKB)111087026894428(EBL)166727(OCoLC)647379604(SSID)ssj0000070572(PQKBManifestationID)11109666(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070572(PQKBWorkID)10053845(PQKB)10659080(MiAaPQ)EBC166727(Au-PeEL)EBL166727(CaPaEBR)ebr10058289(CaONFJC)MIL32174(OCoLC)52521693(EXLCZ)9911108702689442820180706d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrican languages, development and the state /edited by Richard Fardon and Graham FurnissLondon ;New York :Routledge,1994.1 online resource (267 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-09476-3 0-203-42257-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 MozambiqueLanguage 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 relationsThe 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 indexThis 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 developmentAfrican languagesPolitical aspectsLanguage and languagesPolitical aspectsLanguage policyAfricaLanguage planningAfricaElectronic books.African languagesPolitical aspects.Language and languagesPolitical aspects.Language policyLanguage planning306.4/49/096Fardon Richard660428Furniss Graham657438FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910455620503321African languages, development and the state2078745UNINA