Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sociolinguistic OverviewMultilingual Matters, Limited, 1994 - 130 pagina's "This book argues for the need to empower African indigenous languages for greater functions in national life. It makes an important and useful contribution to the understanding of the sociolinguistic and sociopolitical dimensions of language attitudes in the sub-Saharan African language context." "Overall, the book will interest all sociolinguists, language in education researchers and scholars, language policy makers in multilingual situations, and even politicians. Also, anyone interested in the complex African language context will find the book very informative, even stirring, while those involved with language issues in multilingual situations all over the world will find Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa interesting, stimulating, and valuable."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Inhoudsopgave
The Language Scenario in SubSaharan African Countries | 14 |
The official neglect of indigenous languages | 20 |
Conclusion | 27 |
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Adegbija 1992f African indigenous languages African languages Afrikaans Amharic Arabic areas atti attitudes towards languages attitudinal Bamgbose big languages bilingualism communication crucial densely multilingual dialects economic educational domain effective Efik élite English language English low entrench especially esteem ethnic European languages ex-colonial languages exoglossic fact factors Fasold favour French low Fulfulde functions Hausa Hausa language Igbo indigenous African languages indigenous languages Kenya Kiswahili language attitudes research language planning language policy language speaker numbers languages and cultures languages in education large numbers learning lingua franca linguistic literacy major languages minority mother tongue Multilingual and Multicultural multilingual contexts national language Nigeria northern Nigeria number of speakers official language pan-African particular language political population Portuguese prestige primary school role Schmied sociohistorical sociolinguistic Somali speak speakers of small spoken status sub-Saharan Africa sub-Saharan African countries Swahili Swaziland Tanzania tend tudes vehicular languages Wolof Yoruba and Igbo