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Globalization and Language Vitality
Perspectives from Africa
Globalization and Language Vitality
Perspectives from Africa
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction, Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago, USA) and Cécile B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
2. Trajectories of Language Endangerment in South Africa, Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
3. The Circumstances of Language Shift and Death in Southern Africa, Herman M. Batibo (University of Botswana, Botswana)
4. African Modernity, Transnationalism, and Language Vitality: Portuguese in Multilingual Mozambique, Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
5. The Lives of Local and Regional Congolese Languages in Globalized Linguistic Markets, Eyamba G. Bokamba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
6. Globalization and Sociolinguistic Stratification in North Africa: The case of Morocco, Ahmed Boukous (IRCAM, Morocco)
7. The Ascent of Wolof as an Urban Vernacular and National Lingua Franca in Senegal, Fiona Mc Laughlin (University of Florida, USA)
8. On the Futurology of Linguistic Development, Robert Chaudenson (Université d' Aix-Marseille, France)
9. Globalization and the Sociolinguistics of the Internet: Between English and Kiswahili, Alamin Mazrui (Ohio State University, USA)
10. Writing Locality in Globalized Swahili: Semiotizing Space in a Tanzanian novel, Jan Blommaert (Institute of Education, UK)
11. From Africa to Africa: Globalization, Migration and Language Vitality, Cécile B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
12. Creating the Conditions for a Counter-Hegemonic Strategy: African Languages in the Twenty-First Century, Neville Alexander (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Product details
Published | Nov 05 2008 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 272 |
ISBN | 9781441170736 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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"If there is an African way of finding appropriate solutions for linguistic interaction in a situation of increasing cultural, economic, and political globalization then it is to be found in this book. The book presents a range of exciting perspectives on how African societies have dealt and are dealing with their communication problems." - Professor Bernd Heine, Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne, Germany
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"A superb collection of essays by well-known regional specialists on a topic that will affect more and more African speech communities in the near future." - Professor Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne, Germany
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Vigouroux and Mufwene, together with the important cast they have assembled, are to be congratulated for producing one if the best applied linguistics books of recent years...
Springer (Lang Policy 2010)