Author : Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847690114
A longer-range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107088550
This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.
Author : Paulin G. Djité
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1847690459
This book is an analysis of modernisation informed by the place of language in education, health, the economy and governance in the African context. It paints a wide canvas of Africa in its different facets, and shows how language is used as an instrument to deny access to socioeconomic and political emancipation.
Author : Kembo-Sure
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Victor N. Webb
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218490
A discussion of the role which language, or, more properly, languages, can perform in the reconstruction and development of South Africa. The approach followed in this book is characterised by a numbers of features - its aim is to be factually based and theoretically informed.
Author : Christine Anthonissen
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Intercultural communication
ISBN : 9781776140275
To date, there has been no published textbook which takes into account changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication breaks new ground in this arena. Its scope ranges from macro-sociolinguistic questions pertaining to language policies and their implementation (or non-implementation), to microsociolinguistic observations of actual language use in verbal interaction, mainly in multilingual contexts of Higher Education (HE). There is a gradual move for the study of language and culture to be taught in the context of (professional) disciplines in which they would be used. This book caters for this growing market. Because of its multilingual nature, it caters to English and Afrikaans language speakers, as well as the Sotho and Nguni language groups. It brings together various interlinked disciplines such as Sociolinguistics and Applied Language Studies, Media Studies and Journalism, History and Education, Social and Natural Sciences, Law, Human Language Technology, Music, Intercultural Communication and Literary Studies. The unique crosscutting disciplinary features of the book will make it a must-have for twenty-first century South African students and scholars and those interested in applied language issues.
Author : Nkonko Kamwangamalu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134916957
This volume focuses on language planning in the Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe, explaining the linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts, current language situation (including language-in-education planning), the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous to the situations described, and draw on their experience and extensive fieldwork there. The extended case studies contained in this volume draw together the literature on each of the polities to present an overview of the existing research available, while also providing new research-based information. The purpose of this volume is to provide an up-to-date overview of the language situation in each polity based on a series of key questions, in the hope that this might facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities where similar issues may arise. This book comprises case studies originally published in the journal Current Issues in Language Planning.
Author : Ayọ Bamgboṣe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9783825847753
Language is a critical factor in nation-building, and in a continent such as Africa, where language groups do not necessarily correspond with national boundaries, it is potentially contentious as well. Ayo Bamgbose's new book focuses on the problem of language exclusion, whereby certain languages -- and groups -- are omitted from language policies, particularly in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Originally based on a series of lectures given in South Africa, the individual chapters largely preserve the original style of presentation. Consequently, the book is readable, and a valuable introduction to some of the more important issues in African sociolinguistics. The book makes special reference to the language situation in post-apartheid South Africa. The appendices provide access to some of the most important documents on language policies such as the Organization of African Unity's Language Plan of Action For Africa (1986), the language provisions in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of South Africa (1996), and the Barcelona Universal Declaration on Linguistics Rights.
Author : Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853597251
A longer-range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ashraf Abdelhay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527546985
Language policy is heterogeneous and varies according to its object, levels of intervention, purpose, participants and institutions involved, underlying language ideologies, local contexts, power relations, and historical contexts. This volume offers unique cross-cultural perspectives on language planning and policy in diverse African and Middle Eastern contexts, including South Africa, Bahrain, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Zambia, and Algeria. The African diaspora is also considered, as is the case of Brazil. By bringing together diverse contexts in Africa and the Middle East, this volume encourages a dialogue in the burgeoning scholarship on language policies in different regions of Africa and the Middle East in order to inspect the intersection between language policy discourses and their social, political, and educational functions.
