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Discrimination through Language in Africa? : Perspectives on the Namibian Experience / ed. by Martin Pütz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 69Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©1995Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110148176
  • 9783110906677
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 23
LOC classification:
  • P40.45.N3D
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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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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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