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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1995; ©1995
• Edizione: Reprint 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.4/4/096881
• Soggetto topico: Sociolinguistics - Namibia; Language planning - Namibia; Language planning - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Sociolinguistics - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Persona (resp. second.): PützMartin <1955->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Discrimination through language in Africa
• ISBN: 3-11-090667-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788953703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contributions to the sociology of language ; ; 69.