Discrimination through Language in Africa? : : Perspectives on the Namibian Experience /

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
MitwirkendeR:
Adegbija, Efurosibina,
Alexander, Neville,
Batibo, Herman M.,
Beck, Anke,
Bokamba, Eyamba G.,
Fourie, Kotie,
Geingob, Hage G.,
Gretschel, Hans-Volker,
Harlech-Jones, Brian,
Matsela, Zach A.,
Ohly, Rajmund,
Ouane, Adama,
Puglielli, Annarita,
Pütz, Martin,
Webb, Victor,
HerausgeberIn:
Pütz, Martin,
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (338 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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