Language Planning for Development in Africa PDF Download

Author: Kembo-Sure
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: Paulin G. Djité
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847690459
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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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: Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847690114
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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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: Richard B. Baldauf
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853597251
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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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: Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137316233
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa’s indigenous languages as medium of instruction in educational systems. Breaking with the traditional approach to the continent’s language question by focusing on the often overlooked issue of the link between African languages and economic development, Language Policy and Economics argues that African languages are an integral part of a nation’s socio-political and economic development. Therefore, the book argues that any language policy designed to promote these languages in such higher domains as the educational system in particular must have economic advantages if the intent is to succeed, and proposes Prestige Planning as the way to address this issue. The proposition is a welcome break away from language policies which pay lip-service to the empowerment of African languages while, by default, strengthening the stranglehold of imported European languages.

Author: Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107088550
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.

Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776140281
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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An in-depth look at the changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. 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. The scope of this book ranges from macro-sociolinguistic questions pertaining to language policies and their implementation (or non-implementation) to micro-sociolinguistic 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, for example, Journalism and African languages, Education and African languages, etc. The 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 _ the largest languages in South Africa [and also increasingly used in the context of South African Higher Education]. It brings together various inter-linked 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 cross-cutting 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: Victor N. Webb
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027218490
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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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: Nkonko Kamwangamalu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134916884
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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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: Richard Fardon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134868049
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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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