[lg policy] Query: Portuguese colonial language policy

[Harold Schiffman]

Portuguese colonial language policy

Date Written: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:05:33 -0800

 From: Kathleen Sheldon, UCLA
ksheldon at ucla.edu
Date: 11 December 2010


There has been more research on recent language issues, rather than colonial
era policies, but some of these sources may be helpful.  Gregorio Firmino and
Armando Lopes are Mozambican linguists who are at the Universidade Eduardo
Mondlane.

Baldauf, Richard B., Jr., editor. 2004. Language Planning and Policy in Africa,
Vol. 1: Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa. Clevedon, England:
Multilingual Matters.

Firmino, Gregorio D. 2004. A nativizacao do portugues em Mocambique. In A
Persistência da Historia: Passado e Contemporaneidade em Africa, edited by
Clara Carvalho and Joao de Pina Cabral, 343-73. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciencias
Sociais.

Firmino, Gregorio Domingos. 1995. Revisiting the 'Language Question' in
Post-colonial Africa: The Case of Portuguese and Indigenous Languages in
Mozambique. Ph. D. Diss., Berkeley, University of California.

Francisco, Dorcas. 2007. Understanding Teachers' Beliefs and Practices Toward
Bilingual Education in a Multilingual Society: A Mozambican Case Study. Ph. D.
Diss., George Washington University.

Hamilton, Russell G. 1986. Language and Literature in Portuguese-Writing
Africa. Portuguese Studies 2: 196-207.

Harries, Patrick. 1988. The Roots of Ethnicity: Discourse and the Politics of
Language Construction in South-east Africa. African Affairs 87, no. 346: 25-52.

Lopes, A. J. 1998. The Language Situation in Mozambique. Journal of
Multilingual and Multicultural Development 19: 440-86.

---. 2001. Language Revitalisation and Reversal in Mozambique: The Case of
Xironga in Maputo. Current Issues in Language Planning 2: 259-67.

Lopes, Armando Jorge. 1997. Language Policy: Principles and Problems.

Malieque, J.A. 1998. Sociopsychological Survey of Language Attitudes in
Southern Africa: A Case Study of Mozambique. Ph. D. Diss., U.K., Surrey.

Matusse, R. 1999. Language Policies and Practices in Mozambique: The Case of
the Changana/Ronga Radio Journalists. Ph. D. Diss., U.K., Newcastle upon Tyne.

Mkuti, Lukas Dominikus. 1996. Language and Education in Mozambique since 1940:
Policy, Implementation, and Future Perspectives. Ph. D. Diss., University of
Arizona.

Peirone, Frederico José. 1956. A importância do estudo da língua e da cultura
árabe para a missionação dos indígenas islamizados de Moçambique. Garcia de
Orta 4, no. 3, 1956: 371-81.

Rothwell, P. 2000. A Tale of Two Tensions: Synthesis and Separation in
Portuguese National Identity (Colonial Legacies and the Phenomenon of
Sebastianismo). Forum for Modern Language Studies 36, no. 3, July: 322-30.

Stroud, Christopher. Portuguese as Ideology and Politics in Mozambique:
Semiotic (re)constructions of a postcolony. In Language Ideological Debates,
edited by Jan Blommaert, 343-80. Mouton.



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