ISBN:
9781316105023
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4496
Keywords:
Gesellschaft
;
Sprache
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
African languages / Social aspects
;
Language policy / Africa
;
Economic development / Africa
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Afrikanische Sprachen
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Afrika
;
Africa / Languages / Social aspects
;
Afrika
;
Afrikanische Sprachen
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Afrika
;
Sprachpolitik
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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:
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316105023
URL:
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