27.2465, Books: Language and Development in Africa: Wolff
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From: Katie Laker [klaker at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language and Development in Africa: Wolff
Title: Language and Development in Africa
Subtitle: Perceptions, Ideologies and Challenges
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-and-development-africa-perceptions-ideologies-and-challenges?format=HB
Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Hardback: ISBN: 9781107088559 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781107088559 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 79.99
Abstract:
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.
1. Introduction: approach, questions and themes; 2. Background: Africa and the
'West' - a difficult relationship; 3. Perception: between ignorance, half
knowledge and distortion; 4. De-marginalisation: the cradle of mankind and
home of human language; 5. Re-conceptualisation: the overdue linguistic turn
in development discourse; 6. Challenges: linguistic plurality and diversity -
problem or resource?; 7. Future: synopsis and options for language planning;
8. Agenda: arguments and steps; 9. Basic sociolinguistic facts: 'languages',
'dialects', numbers of speakers.
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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