30.1552, Books: Language and Development in Africa: Wolff

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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 22:49:22
From: Lucy Ridgway [lridgway at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language and Development in Africa: Wolff

 


Title: Language and Development in Africa 
Subtitle: Perceptions, Ideologies and Challenges 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-and-development-africa-perceptions-ideologies-and-challenges?format=PB 


Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107459670 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 32.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107459670 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107459670 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 29.17


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

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): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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