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