TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolff,Ekkehard
TI  - Language and development in Africa: perceptions, ideologies and challenges 
SN  - 9781316105023
AV  - P119 .L364 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - African languages
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Language policy
KW  - Africa
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction : approach, questions and themes --; Background : Africa and the West --; a difficult relationship --; Perception : between ignorance, half knowledge and distortion --; De-marginalisation : the cradle of mankind and home of human language --; Re-conceptualisation : the overdue linguistic turn in development discourse --; Challenges : linguistic plurality and diversity --; problem or resource? --; Future : synopsis and options for language planning --; Agenda : arguments and steps --; Basic sociolinguistic facts : languages, dialects, numbers of speakers; 2; b
N2  - 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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