African Languages, Development and the State

Name: African Languages, Development and the State
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ISBN: 9780415094764

ISBN-10: 0415094763

ISBN-13: 9780415094764

Edition: 1994

Authors: Richard Fardon, Graham Furniss

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When compared to the European standard of one nation, one language, Africa's 2,000 indigenous languages--not to mention its languages of colonial provenance, Arabic and numerous locally developed pidgins and creoles--would seem to pose insuperable problems of economic and political organization. The contributors to this volume, both African and European, examine the political consequences of multilingual societies which choose to develop certain languages over others. Working from the perspectives of anthropology and language planning, the contributors argue that the terms of the language development debate are biased because they borrow from inappropriate European models of nationhood. In…

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List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 11/25/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 268
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



West Africa



Pride and Prejudice in Multilingualism and Development



Official and Unofficial Attitudes and Policy towards Krio as the Main Lingua Franca in Sierra Leone



The Politics of Language in Bï¿½nin


Reference



Minority Language Development in Nigeria



Using Existing Structures



Central and Southern Africa



The Language Situation and Language Use in Mozambique



Language and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Development of a Non-Racial Southern African Nation



Dismantling the Tower of Babel



Healthy Production and Reproduction



Minority Language, Ethnicity and the State in Two African Situations


Notes


References



East Africa



Loanwords in Oromo and Rendille as a Mirror of Past Inter-Ethnic Relations



The Metaphors of Development and Modernization in Tanzanian Language Policy and Research


References



Language, Government and the Play on Purity and Impurity


References


Name Index


Subject Index