Languages in Africa : multilingualism, language policy, and education /
People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national Indigenous language-written, widespread, sometimes used in school-surrou...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national Indigenous language-written, widespread, sometimes used in school-surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility-and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect lang. |
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Notas: | "Contributors to this volume came together to discuss the problems and promise of African multilingualism at a joint meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics and the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics in Washington, D.C., in March 2013. As part of that joint conference, a workshop on language and education in Africa was organized by Carolyn Adger of the Center for Applied Linguistics. That workshop became the inspiration for this volume"--Introduction |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781626161535 1626161534 |