Discrimination through Language in Africa? : : Perspectives on the Namibian Experience / / ed. by Martin Pütz.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] ©1995 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Reprint 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ,
69 |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Language and colonialism in Africa - Introduction -- Section 1: Language contact and language conflict in Africa -- The politics of language planning in Africa: Critical choices for the 21st century -- Nation building and language in the new South Africa -- Empowerment of the masses through the use of African languages -- The growth of Kiswahili as language of education and administration in Tanzania -- Section 2: Language expansion and language engineering: Case studies from Africa -- The technicalization of the autochthonous languages of South Africa: Constraints from a present day perspective -- Marketing new lexical terminology in Nigeria: Some practical considerations -- The Somali language lexical project: Aims and methods -- Technicalization of the lexicon through endogenous language resources: A case from Mali -- Section 3: Language, culture and nation building: An illustration with Namibia -- Official monolingualism in Africa: A sociolinguistic assessment of linguistic and cultural pluralism in Namibia -- "Our official language shall be English": The Namibian Prime Minister's perspective -- Language policy and language planning in Namibia -- Language and nation in Namibia: The fallacies of Modernization Theory -- Section 4: The status and use of languages: Linguistic conflict in Namibia -- The role of English in Namibia: A sociocultural and linguistic account -- Attitudes and language: An empirical investigation into the status and use of English in Namibia -- Lexical engineering in African languages: Exemplified through Herero -- The status and use of the German language in independent Namibia: Can German survive the transition? -- Afrikaans - The unwanted lingua franca of Namibia -- List of contributors -- Index of Names -- Subject Index |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110906677 9783110636895 |
ISSN: | 1861-0676 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110906677 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Martin Pütz. |