ISBN:
9781626161535
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1626161534
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 207 pages)
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illustrations.
Series Statement:
Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series
Parallel Title:
Print version Languages in Africa
DDC:
306.446096
Keywords:
Multilingualism Congresses
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Africa
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Native language and education Congresses
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Africa
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Language policy Congresses
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Africa
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African languages Congresses
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Social aspects
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Africa
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Conference proceedings
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African languages Congresses Social aspects
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Multilingualism Congresses
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Native language and education Congresses
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Language policy Congresses
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African languages Congresses Social aspects
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Native language and education Congresses
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Multilingualism Congresses
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Language policy Congresses
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Native language and education
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Africa
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Conference papers and proceedings
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African languages ; Social aspects
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Language policy
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Multilingualism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Flerspråkighet
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Modersmålsundervisning
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Språkpolitik
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Afrikanska språk
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
13 The Persuasive Nature of Metaphors in Kenya's Political Discourse14 African Languages on Film: Visualizations of Pathologized Polyglossia; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
Abstract:
6 Language Contact and Language Attitudes in Two Dagara-Speaking Border Communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana7 Language and Education Policy in Botswana: The Case of Sebirwa; 8 Ethnic Language Shift among the Nao People of Ethiopia; 9 The Role of Language and Culture in Ethnic Identity Maintenance: The Case of the Gujarati Community in South Africa; 10 "The Palm Oil with Which Words Are Eaten": Proverbs from Cameroon's Endangered Indigenous Languages; 11 The Linguistic "Glocal" in Nigeria's Urban Popular Music; 12 Language Use in Advertisements as a Reflection of Speakers' Language Habits.
Abstract:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: Layers of Language-Some Bad News and Some Good News on Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education in Africa; 1 Early Reading Success in Africa: The Language Factor; 2 Multilingualism as a Sociolinguistic Phenomenon: Evidence from Africa; 3 Classroom Discourse in Bilingual and Multilingual Kenyan Primary Schools; 4 Investigating Teacher Effects in Mother-Tongue-Based Multilingual Education Programs; 5 Ghana's Complementary Education Program.
Abstract:
People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language-written, widespread, sometimes used in school-surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility-and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect lang
Note:
"Contributors to this volume came together to discuss the problems and promise of African multilingualism at a joint meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics and the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics in Washington, D.C., in March 2013. As part of that joint conference, a workshop on language and education in Africa was organized by Carolyn Adger of the Center for Applied Linguistics. That workshop became the inspiration for this volume."--Introduction. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Layers of language : some bad news and some good news on multilingualism, language policy, and education in Africa
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Early reading success in Africa : the language factor
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Classroom discourse in bilingual and multilingual Kenyan primary schools
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Investigating teacher effects in mother-tongue-based multilingual education programs
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A complementary education program in Ghana
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Request strategies as used by Tunisian EFL learners
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Language contact and language attitudes in two Dagara-speaking border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana
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Language and education policy in Botswana : the case of Sebirwa
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Ethnic language shift in Nao
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The role of language and culture for ethnic identity maintenance : the case of the Gujarati community in South Africa
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"The palm oil with which words are eaten" : proverbs from endangered Cameroonian indigenous languages
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The linguistic "glocal" in urban popular music in Nigeria
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Language use in advertisements as a reflection of speakers' language habits
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The persuasive nature of metaphors in Kenya's political discourse
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African languages in the media : visualizations of pathologized polyglossia
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