32.794, Books: Language Policy in Ethiopia: Mekonnen Alemu Gebre

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:45:31
From: Laura de Kreij [Laura.dekreij at Springernature.com]
Subject: Language Policy in Ethiopia: Mekonnen Alemu Gebre

 


Title: Language Policy in Ethiopia 
Subtitle: The Interplay Between Policy and Practice in Tigray Regional State 
Series Title: Language Policy  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Springer
	   http://www.springer.com
	

Book URL: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030639037 


Author: Yohannes Mekonnen Alemu Gebre

Electronic: ISBN:  9783030639044 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 85.59
Hardback: ISBN:  9783030639037 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 108.99


Abstract:

This book examines the interplay and tensions between hegemonic and
counter-hegemonic language policy and processes in Tigray, a regional state of
Ethiopia, in the period of pre- and post-1991. Viewing language use and
language policy as dynamic social and ideological processes, the book presents
Ethiopia as an example of language policy creation and implementation over
time, in a highly volatile political context. The case of Ethiopia is unique
in that different language policies and practices were put in place as the
country’s leaders changed through political takeovers. Declared language
policies were not always implemented, and those implemented were often
protested. The book starts with an overview and review of language policy and
planning, followed by a chapter on the history of such planning in Ethiopia.
It then presents the methodology used for the study, and examines the
appropriation of hegemonic LPP, patterns of resistance, schools and public
sites as centers of resistance, and the emergence and development of specific
patterns of language use in different regions of the country. The book ends
with recommendations for future research, and draws the overall conclusion
that since LPP is a dynamic and multilayered contextual process, official or
de facto language policy is often undermined by overt or covert unofficial
language policies, ideologies, mechanisms, and agents that result in different
patterns of language use.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): Ethiopian


Written In: English  (eng)

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