Language and development in Africa: perceptions, ideologies and challenges
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge University Press
2016
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Umfang: | xvi, 358 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781107088559 9781107459670 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of figures page ix
List of maps x
List of tables xi
Preface xiii
1 Introduction: approach» questions and themes 1
1.1 What this book is about I
1.2 Language and mainstream development discourse: ‘it’s the languages, stupid*’ 6
1.3 Language attitudes, ideological blinkers and scientific approaches 18
L4 Language - education - development 32
1.5 Twenty themes to guide the reader 41
1.6 Perspectives 43
2 Background: Africa and the West - a difficult relationship 46
2.1 Africa polarises: Westerners caught between attraction and repulsion 48
2.2 Do we really know more about Africa than our (great-) grandparents did? 59
2.3 Time and reason to rethink matters 63
2.4 Listening to Africans - but how? 71
3 Perception: between ignorance, half-knowledge and distortion 77
3.1 Perception and reality 80
3.2 Superficial information, half-knowledge and ignorance 95
33 Eurocentrism and Orientalism 100
3.4 Paternalism: why the West constantly interferes in African affairs 103
4 De-marginalisation: die ‘cradle of humanity* and home
of human language 106
4.1 Africa in global history 108
4.2 What is marginal: Africa or our knowledge about it? 119
4.3 We are all ‘Africans* 121
4.4 Explaining language history and diversity 126
4.5 Conclusion 154
5 Re-conceptualisation: the overdue linguistic turn
in development discourse 155
5.1 The language question in academic and political discourse 157
5.2 African Renaissance without African languages? 163
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5.3 European linguistic and cultural imperialism 165
5.4 To whom do African languages belong? 169
6 Challenges : linguis tic plurality and diversity — problem
or resource? 172
6.1 Linguistic diversity and the latitudinal gradient 174
6.2 What does linguistic plurality mean in the African context? 176
6.3 African and other languages in Africa 180
6.4 African languages in official functions 182
6.5 The political and economic dimensions of linguistic plurality 185
6.6 African ‘mother tongues’ and Africa’s future 189
6.7 Languages and globalisation 204
6.8 Language as ‘barrier’ and language as ‘facilitator’ 206
6.9 Multi-tiered communication landscapes in Africa 209
6.10 The fundamental multidimensionality of language 217
6.11 A word on language change, death, birth and revitalisation 222
6.12 Multilingualism versus multiple semilingualism 226
6.13 Language and power in Africa 228
6.14 Chinese Whispers: breakdown of communication in
North-South dialogue 236
7 Future: synopsis and options for language planning 238
7.1 The role of language in development communication 242
7.2 The final act of decolonisation: liberating the African languages 244
7.3 The options for sustainable language planning are on the table 249
7.4 Managing multilingualism: language planning is social planning 257
7.5 ‘Informed choices’ versus ‘uninformed choices’ 260
7.6 Overcoming underdevelopment and mass poverty in Africa Yia
adequate language policies for education 264
8 Agenda: arguments and steps 270
8.1 Eight arguments in favour of substantial changes concerning
language policies in education in Africa 270
8.2 Ten steps towards integrating indigenous languages into national
education systems in Africa 275
9 Basic sociolinguistic facts: languages» dialects, numbers
of speakers 284
9.1 Political and historical dimensions of language in Africa 284
9.2 Languages* dialects and dialect continua 288
9.3 Languages and their numbers of speakers 293
9.4 Africa’s big languages 296
9.5 African language phyla and families 300
Bibliography 305
Cited works 305
Introductory and further reading 308
Glossary 316
Index 345
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