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Language Policy and Economics: The Language Question in Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Language Policy and Economics: The Language Question in Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
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This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote
Africa's indigenous languages as medium of instruction in
educational systems. Breaking with the traditional approach to the
continent's language question by focusing on the often overlooked
issue of the link between African languages and economic
development, Language Policy and Economics argues that African
languages are an integral part of a nation's socio-political and
economic development. Therefore, the book argues that any language
policy designed to promote these languages in such higher domains
as the educational system in particular must have economic
advantages if the intent is to succeed, and proposes Prestige
Planning as the way to address this issue. The proposition is a
welcome break away from language policies which pay lip-service to
the empowerment of African languages while, by default,
strengthening the stranglehold of imported European languages.
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