LEADER 03638oam 2200697I 450 001 9910780103703321 005 20230421041556.0 010 $a1-03-234042-8 010 $a1-134-86803-0 010 $a1-134-86804-9 010 $a1-280-32174-1 010 $a0-585-45235-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203422571 035 $a(CKB)111087026894428 035 $a(EBL)166727 035 $a(OCoLC)647379604 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000070572 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11109666 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000070572 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10053845 035 $a(PQKB)10659080 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL166727 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058289 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL32174 035 $a(OCoLC)52521693 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC166727 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026894428 100 $a20180706d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAfrican languages, development and the state /$fedited by Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1994. 215 $a1 online resource (267 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-09476-3 311 $a0-203-42257-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aBook 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 327 $aLanguage 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 327 $aThe 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 330 $aThis 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 606 $aAfrican languages$xPolitical aspects 606 $aLanguage and languages$xPolitical aspects 606 $aLanguage policy$zAfrica 606 $aLanguage planning$zAfrica 615 0$aAfrican languages$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aLanguage policy 615 0$aLanguage planning 676 $a306.4/49/096 701 $aFardon$b Richard$0660428 701 $aFurniss$b Graham$0657438 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780103703321 996 $aAfrican languages, development and the state$93810587 997 $aUNINA