Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 358 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316105023
Content:
Development is based on communication through language. With more than two thousand languages being used in Africa, language becomes a highly relevant factor in all sectors of political, social, cultural and economic life. This important sociolinguistic dimension hitherto remains underrated and under-researched in 'Western' mainstream development studies. The book discusses the resourcefulness of languages, both local and global, in view of the ongoing transformation of African societies as much as for economic development. From a novel 'applied African sociolinguistics' perspective it analyses the continuing effects of linguistic imperialism on postcolonial African societies, in particular regarding the educational sector, through imposed hegemonic languages such as Arabic and the ex-colonial languages of European provenance. It offers a broad interdisciplinary scientific approach to the linguistic dimensions of sociocultural modernisation and economic development in Africa, written for both the non-linguistically trained reader as much as for the linguistically trained researcher and language practitioner.
Content:
Introduction : approach, questions and themes -- Background : Africa and the West -- a difficult relationship -- Perception : between ignorance, half knowledge and distortion -- De-marginalisation : the cradle of mankind and home of human language -- Re-conceptualisation : the overdue linguistic turn in development discourse -- Challenges : linguistic plurality and diversity -- problem or resource? -- Future : synopsis and options for language planning -- Agenda : arguments and steps -- Basic sociolinguistic facts : languages, dialects, numbers of speakers
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107459670
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107088559
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107088559
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107459670
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Wolff, H. Ekkehard, 1944 - Language and development in africa Cambridge, United Kingdon : Cambridge University Press, 2016 ISBN 1107088550
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107088559
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107088559
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Afrikanische Sprachen
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Afrika
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Afrika
;
Soziolinguistik
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316105023
URL:
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Author information:
Wolff, H. Ekkehard 1944-
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