From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Mon Feb 23 21:00:11 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:00:11 EST Subject: Globalisation and African Languages, edited by Katrin Bromber and Birgit Smieja Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- A new publication from MOUTON DE GRUYTER! >From the Series TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS. STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS Series Editors: Walter Bisang and Hans Henrich Hock GLOBALISATION AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES Risks and Benefits Edited by Katrin Bromber and Birgit Smieja 2004. xii, 348 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 118.00 ISBN 3-11-018099-5 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 156) GLOBALISATION AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES links African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation' which increasingly undergoes critical review. Hence, African linguists of various provenience can make valuable contributions to this debate. In cultural matters, which by definition include language, there is often a sense that globalisation leads to a major trend of homogenisation, which results in a reduction of diversity on the one hand and, on the other, in new themes being incorporated into global (cultural) patterns. However, often conflicting and overlapping particularistic interests exist which have a constructive as well as destructive potential. This aspect leads directly to the first of three sections of this volume, Language Use and Attitudes, which addresses some of the burning issues in sociolinguistic research. Since this research area is tightly linked to the educational domain these important issues are addressed in articles that comprise the second section of this volume: Language Policy and Education. The third section of the volume presents articles dealing with Language Description and Classification demonstrating which parts of different language systems are affected through contact under historical and modern conditions. The contributions of all the well-known scholars in this volume show that globalisation is a two-way street, and to ensure that all sides benefit in a reciprocal manner means the impacts have to be monitored globally, regionally, nationally and locally. By disseminating and emphasising these linguistic findings as part of the global cultural heritage, African language studies may offer urgently needed new perspectives towards a rapidly changing world. Katrin Bromber researches at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, Germany. Birgit Smieja is Assistant Professor at the University Koblenz-Landau, Germany. FROM THE CONTENTS Foreword VICE CHANCELLOR OF UNAM PETER KATJAVIVI Acknowledgements Tabula gratulatoria Karsten Legère - African language studies on the move: A short biography BIRGIT SMIEJA AND KATRIN BROMBER Karsten Legère: A bibliography Introduction KATRIN BROMBER AND BIRGIT SMIEJA Section I: Language use and attitudes Der übergeordnete ideologische Rahmen der Sprachkonflikte weltweit RENÉ DIRVEN AND MARTIN PÜTZ Indianer und andere Minderheiten - Überlegungen zu einer sprachplanerischen Minoritologie PETER HANS NELDE Setswana: An under-exploited national resource? HERMAN M. BATIBO Can a 'foreign' language be a national medium of education? Linguistic ecology and equality in Namibia MARTIN PÜTZ Revisiting reversing language shift: African languages in high modernity CHRISTOPHER STROUD Triglossia: African privilege or necessity RAJMUND OHLY ? Section II: Language policy and education Using Northern Sotho as medium of instruction in vocational training VIC WEBB, BIKI LEPOTA AND REFILWE RAMAGOSHI Developing a language policy in an African country: The case of Malawi AL MTENJE Writing and reading in English and L1: Attitudes among pupils in Lira and Mpigi, Uganda MECHTHILD REH Section III: Language description and classification The impact of Kiswahili on Kiluguru DANIEL J. MKUDE Loan words in Swahili ARVI HURSKAINEN The noun phrase in the Kerebe language CHRISTINA THORNELL The infinitive as a part of speech in Swahili NELLI V. GROMOVA On vowel systems in the southern Bole-Tangale languages RUDOLF LEGER !Xun as a type B language BERND HEINE AND CHRISTA KÖNIG How many languages are there in Africa, really? JOUNI FILIP MAHO Languages and language names in Mozambique, 150 years ago and now TORE JANSON Observations on Swahili and Midzichenda plant names FRANZ ROTTLAND AND RALF GROSSERHODE Subject index SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER. To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. 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From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Wed Feb 25 13:07:22 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:07:22 EST Subject: Globalisation and African Languages, edited by Katrin Bromber and Birgit Smieja Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- A new publication from MOUTON DE GRUYTER! >From the Series TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS. STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS Series Editors: Walter Bisang and Hans Henrich Hock GLOBALISATION AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES Risks and Benefits Edited by Katrin Bromber and Birgit Smieja 2004. xii, 348 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 118.00 ISBN 3-11-018099-5 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 156) GLOBALISATION AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES links African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation' which increasingly undergoes critical review. Hence, African linguists of various provenience can make valuable contributions to this debate. In cultural matters, which by definition include language, there is often a sense that globalisation leads to a major trend of homogenisation, which results in a reduction of diversity on the one hand and, on the other, in new themes being incorporated into global (cultural) patterns. However, often conflicting and overlapping particularistic interests exist which have a constructive as well as destructive potential. This aspect leads directly to the first of three sections of this volume, Language Use and Attitudes, which addresses some of the burning issues in sociolinguistic research. Since this research area is tightly linked to the educational domain these important issues are addressed in articles that comprise the second section of this volume: Language Policy and Education. The third section of the volume presents articles dealing with Language Description and Classification demonstrating which parts of different language systems are affected through contact under historical and modern conditions. The contributions of all the well-known scholars in this volume show that globalisation is a two-way street, and to ensure that all sides benefit in a reciprocal manner means the impacts have to be monitored globally, regionally, nationally and locally. By disseminating and emphasising these linguistic findings as part of the global cultural heritage, African language studies may offer urgently needed new perspectives towards a rapidly changing world. Katrin Bromber researches at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, Germany. Birgit Smieja is Assistant Professor at the University Koblenz-Landau, Germany. FROM THE CONTENTS Foreword VICE CHANCELLOR OF UNAM PETER KATJAVIVI Acknowledgements Tabula gratulatoria Karsten Legère - African language studies on the move: A short biography BIRGIT SMIEJA AND KATRIN BROMBER Karsten Legère: A bibliography Introduction KATRIN BROMBER AND BIRGIT SMIEJA Section I: Language use and attitudes Der übergeordnete ideologische Rahmen der Sprachkonflikte weltweit RENÉ DIRVEN AND MARTIN PÜTZ Indianer und andere Minderheiten - Überlegungen zu einer sprachplanerischen Minoritologie PETER HANS NELDE Setswana: An under-exploited national resource? HERMAN M. BATIBO Can a 'foreign' language be a national medium of education? Linguistic ecology and equality in Namibia MARTIN PÜTZ Revisiting reversing language shift: African languages in high modernity CHRISTOPHER STROUD Triglossia: African privilege or necessity RAJMUND OHLY ? Section II: Language policy and education Using Northern Sotho as medium of instruction in vocational training VIC WEBB, BIKI LEPOTA AND REFILWE RAMAGOSHI Developing a language policy in an African country: The case of Malawi AL MTENJE Writing and reading in English and L1: Attitudes among pupils in Lira and Mpigi, Uganda MECHTHILD REH Section III: Language description and classification The impact of Kiswahili on Kiluguru DANIEL J. MKUDE Loan words in Swahili ARVI HURSKAINEN The noun phrase in the Kerebe language CHRISTINA THORNELL The infinitive as a part of speech in Swahili NELLI V. GROMOVA On vowel systems in the southern Bole-Tangale languages RUDOLF LEGER !Xun as a type B language BERND HEINE AND CHRISTA KÖNIG How many languages are there in Africa, really? JOUNI FILIP MAHO Languages and language names in Mozambique, 150 years ago and now TORE JANSON Observations on Swahili and Midzichenda plant names FRANZ ROTTLAND AND RALF GROSSERHODE Subject index SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER. To order, please contact SFG-Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada and Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA Fax: +1 (914) 747-1326 E-mail: cs at degruyterny.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: http://www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. 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STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS Series Editors: Walter Bisang and Hans Henrich Hock GLOBALISATION AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES Risks and Benefits Edited by Katrin Bromber and Birgit Smieja 2004. xii, 348 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 118.00 ISBN 3-11-018099-5 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 156) GLOBALISATION AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES links African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation' which increasingly undergoes critical review. Hence, African linguists of various provenience can make valuable contributions to this debate. In cultural matters, which by definition include language, there is often a sense that globalisation leads to a major trend of homogenisation, which results in a reduction of diversity on the one hand and, on the other, in new themes being incorporated into global (cultural) patterns. However, often conflicting and overlapping particularistic interests exist which have a constructive as well as destructive potential. This aspect leads directly to the first of three sections of this volume, Language Use and Attitudes, which addresses some of the burning issues in sociolinguistic research. Since this research area is tightly linked to the educational domain these important issues are addressed in articles that comprise the second section of this volume: Language Policy and Education. The third section of the volume presents articles dealing with Language Description and Classification demonstrating which parts of different language systems are affected through contact under historical and modern conditions. The contributions of all the well-known scholars in this volume show that globalisation is a two-way street, and to ensure that all sides benefit in a reciprocal manner means the impacts have to be monitored globally, regionally, nationally and locally. By disseminating and emphasising these linguistic findings as part of the global cultural heritage, African language studies may offer urgently needed new perspectives towards a rapidly changing world. Katrin Bromber researches at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, Germany. Birgit Smieja is Assistant Professor at the University Koblenz-Landau, Germany. FROM THE CONTENTS Foreword VICE CHANCELLOR OF UNAM PETER KATJAVIVI Acknowledgements Tabula gratulatoria Karsten Leg?re - African language studies on the move: A short biography BIRGIT SMIEJA AND KATRIN BROMBER Karsten Leg?re: A bibliography Introduction KATRIN BROMBER AND BIRGIT SMIEJA Section I: Language use and attitudes Der ?bergeordnete ideologische Rahmen der Sprachkonflikte weltweit REN? DIRVEN AND MARTIN P?TZ Indianer und andere Minderheiten - ?berlegungen zu einer sprachplanerischen Minoritologie PETER HANS NELDE Setswana: An under-exploited national resource? HERMAN M. BATIBO Can a 'foreign' language be a national medium of education? Linguistic ecology and equality in Namibia MARTIN P?TZ Revisiting reversing language shift: African languages in high modernity CHRISTOPHER STROUD Triglossia: African privilege or necessity RAJMUND OHLY ? Section II: Language policy and education Using Northern Sotho as medium of instruction in vocational training VIC WEBB, BIKI LEPOTA AND REFILWE RAMAGOSHI Developing a language policy in an African country: The case of Malawi AL MTENJE Writing and reading in English and L1: Attitudes among pupils in Lira and Mpigi, Uganda MECHTHILD REH Section III: Language description and classification The impact of Kiswahili on Kiluguru DANIEL J. MKUDE Loan words in Swahili ARVI HURSKAINEN The noun phrase in the Kerebe language CHRISTINA THORNELL The infinitive as a part of speech in Swahili NELLI V. GROMOVA On vowel systems in the southern Bole-Tangale languages RUDOLF LEGER !Xun as a type B language BERND HEINE AND CHRISTA K?NIG How many languages are there in Africa, really? JOUNI FILIP MAHO Languages and language names in Mozambique, 150 years ago and now TORE JANSON Observations on Swahili and Midzichenda plant names FRANZ ROTTLAND AND RALF GROSSERHODE Subject index SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER. 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STUDIES AND MONOGRAPHS Series Editors: Walter Bisang and Hans Henrich Hock GLOBALISATION AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES Risks and Benefits Edited by Katrin Bromber and Birgit Smieja 2004. xii, 348 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 118.00 ISBN 3-11-018099-5 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 156) GLOBALISATION AND AFRICAN LANGUAGES links African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation' which increasingly undergoes critical review. Hence, African linguists of various provenience can make valuable contributions to this debate. In cultural matters, which by definition include language, there is often a sense that globalisation leads to a major trend of homogenisation, which results in a reduction of diversity on the one hand and, on the other, in new themes being incorporated into global (cultural) patterns. However, often conflicting and overlapping particularistic interests exist which have a constructive as well as destructive potential. This aspect leads directly to the first of three sections of this volume, Language Use and Attitudes, which addresses some of the burning issues in sociolinguistic research. Since this research area is tightly linked to the educational domain these important issues are addressed in articles that comprise the second section of this volume: Language Policy and Education. The third section of the volume presents articles dealing with Language Description and Classification demonstrating which parts of different language systems are affected through contact under historical and modern conditions. The contributions of all the well-known scholars in this volume show that globalisation is a two-way street, and to ensure that all sides benefit in a reciprocal manner means the impacts have to be monitored globally, regionally, nationally and locally. By disseminating and emphasising these linguistic findings as part of the global cultural heritage, African language studies may offer urgently needed new perspectives towards a rapidly changing world. Katrin Bromber researches at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, Germany. Birgit Smieja is Assistant Professor at the University Koblenz-Landau, Germany. FROM THE CONTENTS Foreword VICE CHANCELLOR OF UNAM PETER KATJAVIVI Acknowledgements Tabula gratulatoria Karsten Leg?re - African language studies on the move: A short biography BIRGIT SMIEJA AND KATRIN BROMBER Karsten Leg?re: A bibliography Introduction KATRIN BROMBER AND BIRGIT SMIEJA Section I: Language use and attitudes Der ?bergeordnete ideologische Rahmen der Sprachkonflikte weltweit REN? DIRVEN AND MARTIN P?TZ Indianer und andere Minderheiten - ?berlegungen zu einer sprachplanerischen Minoritologie PETER HANS NELDE Setswana: An under-exploited national resource? HERMAN M. BATIBO Can a 'foreign' language be a national medium of education? Linguistic ecology and equality in Namibia MARTIN P?TZ Revisiting reversing language shift: African languages in high modernity CHRISTOPHER STROUD Triglossia: African privilege or necessity RAJMUND OHLY ? Section II: Language policy and education Using Northern Sotho as medium of instruction in vocational training VIC WEBB, BIKI LEPOTA AND REFILWE RAMAGOSHI Developing a language policy in an African country: The case of Malawi AL MTENJE Writing and reading in English and L1: Attitudes among pupils in Lira and Mpigi, Uganda MECHTHILD REH Section III: Language description and classification The impact of Kiswahili on Kiluguru DANIEL J. MKUDE Loan words in Swahili ARVI HURSKAINEN The noun phrase in the Kerebe language CHRISTINA THORNELL The infinitive as a part of speech in Swahili NELLI V. GROMOVA On vowel systems in the southern Bole-Tangale languages RUDOLF LEGER !Xun as a type B language BERND HEINE AND CHRISTA K?NIG How many languages are there in Africa, really? JOUNI FILIP MAHO Languages and language names in Mozambique, 150 years ago and now TORE JANSON Observations on Swahili and Midzichenda plant names FRANZ ROTTLAND AND RALF GROSSERHODE Subject index SIGN UP FOR OUR FREE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER AT WWW.DEGRUYTER.DE/NEWSLETTER. 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