Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Language and colonialism in Africa â€? 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
  • 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
  • €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
  • The status and use of the German language in independent Namibia: Can German survive the transition?Afrikaans â€? The unwanted lingua franca of Namibia
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Names
  • Subject Index