[PDF] Globalization The Study Of Languages In Africa eBook

Author : Katrin Bromber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110891611

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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.

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9785416437

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This book contains papers which focus on the twin subjects of globalisation and information/communication technologies (ICTs). They express either fear or optimism regarding their effects on the survival of indigenous cultures, languages and literature. This book is a must read for anyone who is interested to learn more about the role of globalisation in the erosion of cultural as well as linguistic diversity, and the impact of ICTs in the development of indigenous languages in Africa.

Author : Cécile B. Vigouroux
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2008-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 082649515X

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This book discusses the effects of globalization on languages in Africa. In contrast to previous studies, the contributors examine whether or not globalization is affecting African languages in the same ways and at the same rate in different countries, and how local experiences of language change vary from place to place. Rather than seeing English as the 'killer language' par excellence, the contributors probe ways in which languages are being used side by side to complement each other in some contexts while competing against European colonial languages in others. The result is a diverse canvas of language vitality in the African context, including matters of endangerment and loss, through the lense of globalization in its various interpretations. This book is a must read for students and researchers interested in language change and death and in the fate of European languages in the rest of the world.

Author : Francis O. Egbokhare
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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Globalization and the Future of African Languages

Author : Gudrun Miehe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : African languages
ISBN : 3825803880

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This volume contains the results of the Bayreuth SFB research program "Effects of globalisation processes on the vitality of languages in West African cities". Two towns with different historical and colonial background, Maiduguri in Nigeria and Banfora in Burkina Faso, were selected as research areas. The contrast between language and social institutions is most obvious in the colonial and post- colonial world in Africa. Colonization was characterized by the importation of European institutions which were of a qualitatively new nature linked to the globalising forces. This qualitative newness is captured in our term "direct globalisation". A basic observation is that the globalising forces led to a hierarchicalisation of languages in Africa which is not obviously attested in the institutions of direct globalisation. Our term "indirect globalisation" describes the alignment of local practices to the external forces and institutions introduced during a globalising colonial and post-colonial experience.

Author : Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2016-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137316233

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This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa’s indigenous languages as medium of instruction in educational systems. Breaking with the traditional approach to the continent’s language question by focusing on the often overlooked issue of the link between African languages and economic development, Language Policy and Economics argues that African languages are an integral part of a nation’s socio-political and economic development. Therefore, the book argues that any language policy designed to promote these languages in such higher domains as the educational system in particular must have economic advantages if the intent is to succeed, and proposes Prestige Planning as the way to address this issue. The proposition is a welcome break away from language policies which pay lip-service to the empowerment of African languages while, by default, strengthening the stranglehold of imported European languages.

Author : Sabrina Billings
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783090774

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Through micro-analysis of language use, this book chronicles young women's pathways to becoming a Tanzanian beauty queen, offering an original perspective on the intersection of language with globalization, nationalism, and inequality in urban East Africa. This compelling linguistic ethnography considers the real-life effects, both on- and off-stage, of language policy, education, and gender dynamics for the women competing in the pageants. While highlighting many contestants' struggles for escape from poverty and patriarchy, the book also emphasizes their creative strategies – linguistic and otherwise – for bettering their lives and shows how people living in a global economic periphery take part in, and sometimes feel left out of, the wider world.

Author : Maryam Borjian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315394618

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Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9785416488

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This book contains papers which focus on the twin subjects of globalisation and information/communication technologies (ICTs). They express either fear or optimism regarding their effects on the survival of indigenous cultures, languages and literature. This book is a must read for anyone who is interested to learn more about the role of globalisation in the erosion of cultural as well as linguistic diversity, and the impact of ICTs in the development of indigenous languages in Africa.