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Language and Development in Africa - Perceptions, Ideologies and Challenges (Electronic book text)
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Language and Development in Africa - Perceptions, Ideologies and Challenges (Electronic book text)
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Development is based on communication through language. With more
than two thousand languages being used in Africa, language becomes
a highly relevant factor in all sectors of political, social,
cultural and economic life. This important sociolinguistic
dimension hitherto remains underrated and under-researched in
'Western' mainstream development studies. The book discusses the
resourcefulness of languages, both local and global, in view of the
ongoing transformation of African societies as much as for economic
development. From a novel 'applied African sociolinguistics'
perspective it analyses the continuing effects of linguistic
imperialism on postcolonial African societies, in particular
regarding the educational sector, through imposed hegemonic
languages such as Arabic and the ex-colonial languages of European
provenance. It offers a broad interdisciplinary scientific approach
to the linguistic dimensions of sociocultural modernisation and
economic development in Africa, written for both the
non-linguistically trained reader as much as for the linguistically
trained researcher and language practitioner.
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