Language and Development in Africa

Name: Language and Development in Africa
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107088559
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Perceptions, Ideologies and Challenges

Autor: H. Ekkehard Wolff

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Editura: Cambridge University Press

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Development is based on communication through language. With more than 2,000 languages being used in...

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Autor

H. Ekkehard Wolff

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2016

Pagini

376

EAN

9781107088559

ISBN

1107088550

Enbook ID

09928373

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

680

Dimensiuni

237 x 201 x 26

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Development is based on communication through language. With more than 2,000 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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