African languages, development and the state / / edited by Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/49/096
• Soggetto topico: African languages - Political aspects; Language and languages - Political aspects; Language policy - Africa; Language planning - Africa
• Altri autori: FardonRichard FurnissGraham
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: African languages, development and the state
• ISBN: 1-03-234042-8; 1-134-86803-0; 1-134-86804-9; 1-280-32174-1; 0-585-45235-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780103703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II