ISBN:
9781107088559
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (376 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Wolff, H. Ekkehard Language and Development in Africa : Perceptions, Ideologies and Challenges
DDC:
306.4496
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Afrikanische Sprachen
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Afrika
;
Sprachpolitik
Abstract:
This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: approach, questions and themes -- 2 Background: Africa and the West - a difficult relationship -- 3 Perception: between ignorance, half-knowledge and distortion -- 4 De-marginalisation: the 'cradle of humanity' and home of human language -- 5 Re-conceptualisation: the overdue linguistic turn in development discourse
Abstract:
6 Challenges: linguistic plurality and diversity - problem or resource? -- 7 Future: synopsis and options for language planning -- 8 Agenda: arguments and steps -- 9 Basic sociolinguistic facts: languages, dialects, numbers of speakers -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- 1.1 What this book is about -- 1.2 Language and mainstream development discourse: 'It's the languages, stupid!' -- 1.3 Language attitudes, ideological blinkers and scientific approaches -- 1.4 Language - education - development -- 1.5 Twenty themes to guide the reader -- 1.6 Perspectives
Abstract:
2.1 Africa polarises: Westerners caught between attraction and repulsion -- 2.2 Do we really know more about Africa than our (great-) grandparents did? -- 2.3 Time and reason to rethink matters -- 2.4 Listening to Africans - but how? -- 3.1 Perception and reality -- 3.2 Superficial information, half-knowledge and ignorance -- 3.3 Eurocentrism and Orientalism -- 3.4 Paternalism: why the West constantly interferes in African affairs -- 4.1 Africa in global history -- 4.2 What is marginal: Africa or our knowledge about it? -- 4.3 We are all 'Africans'
Abstract:
4.4 Explaining language history and diversity -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5.1 The language question in academic and political discourse -- 5.2 African Renaissance without African languages? -- 5.3 European linguistic and cultural imperialism -- 5.4 To whom do African languages belong? -- 6.1 Linguistic diversity and the latitudinal gradient -- 6.2 What does linguistic plurality mean in the African context? -- 6.3 African and other languages in Africa -- 6.4 African languages in official functions
Abstract:
6.5 The political and economic dimensions of linguistic plurality -- 6.6 African 'mother tongues' and Africa's future -- 6.7 Languages and globalisation -- 6.8 Language as 'barrier' and language as 'facilitator' -- 6.9 Multi-tiered communication landscapes in Africa -- 6.10 The fundamental multidimensionality of language -- 6.11 A word on language change, death, birth and revitalisation -- 6.12 Multilingualism versus multiple semilingualism -- 6.13 Language and power in Africa
Abstract:
6.14 Chinese Whispers: breakdown of communication in North-South dialogue
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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