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1 online resource (348) : illustrations |
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Contributions to the sociology of language ; 69 |
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Contributions to the sociology of language ; 69.
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Contents -- Language and colonialism in Africa � Introduction -- Section 1: Language contact and language conflict in Africa -- The politics of language planning in Africa: Critical choices for the 2Ist Century -- Nation building and language in the new South Africa -- Empowerment of the masses through the use of African languages -- The growth of Kiswahili as language of education and administration in Tanzania -- Section 2: Language expansion and language engineering: Case studies from Africa |
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The technicalization of the autochthonous languages of South Africa: Constraints from a present day perspectiveMarketing new lexical terminology in Nigeria: Some practical considerations -- The Somali language lexical project: Aims and methods -- Technicalization of the lexicon through endogenous language resources: A case firom Mali -- Section 3: Language, culture and nation building: An Illustration with Namibia -- Official monolingualism in Africa: A sociolinguistic assessment of linguistic and cultural pluralism in Namibia |
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€œOur official language shall be English“: The Namibian Prime Minister's perspectiveLanguage policy and language planning in Namibia -- Language and nation in Namibia:The fallacies of Modernization Theory -- Section 4: The status and use of languages: Linguistic conflict in Namibia -- The role of English in Namibia: A sociocultural and linguistic account -- Attitudes and language: An empirical investigation into the status and use of English in Namibia -- Lexical engineering in African languages: Exemplified through Herero |
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The status and use of the German language in independent Namibia: Can German survive the transition?Afrikaans � The unwanted lingua franca of Namibia -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- Subject Index |
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Print version record |
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Sociolinguistics -- Namibia
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Language planning -- Namibia
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Language planning -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Sociolinguistics -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Language planning
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Sociolinguistics
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Namibia
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3110906678 |
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9783110906677 |
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