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Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Language and Politics in South Africa Since 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neville Alexander
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Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book Language Policy and National Unity in South Africa/Azania written by Neville Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137316233
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Language Policy and Economics: The Language Question in Africa written by Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa’s indigenous languages as medium of instruction in educational systems. Breaking with the traditional approach to the continent’s language question by focusing on the often overlooked issue of the link between African languages and economic development, Language Policy and Economics argues that African languages are an integral part of a nation’s socio-political and economic development. Therefore, the book argues that any language policy designed to promote these languages in such higher domains as the educational system in particular must have economic advantages if the intent is to succeed, and proposes Prestige Planning as the way to address this issue. The proposition is a welcome break away from language policies which pay lip-service to the empowerment of African languages while, by default, strengthening the stranglehold of imported European languages.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363394
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.
Author : Victor N. Webb
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Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Language in South Africa written by Victor N. Webb and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is part of the Languages in Contact and Conflict in Africa Research and Development Programme ("LiCCA"). which, in the words of Dirven and Webb (1993) was initiated to address one of the central language related problems of modern Africa, viz. the conflict between the interests of the general citizenry of each state and the educationally, culturally, politically and economically empowered languages of these states, generally the ex-colonial languages
Author : Ericka A. Albaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139916777
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)
Download or read book State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa written by Ericka A. Albaugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.
Author : Paul S. Landau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139488260
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 written by Paul S. Landau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 offers an inclusive vision of South Africa's past. Drawing largely from original sources, Paul Landau presents a history of the politics of the country's people, from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands, through the colonial era, to the dawn of Apartheid. A practical tradition of mobilization, alliance, and amalgamation persisted, mutated, and occasionally vanished from view; it survived against the odds in several forms, in tribalisms, Christian assemblies, and other, seemingly hybrid movements; and it continues today. Landau treats southern Africa broadly, concentrating increasingly on the southern Highveld and ultimately focusing on a transnational movement called the 'Samuelites'. He shows how people's politics in South Africa were suppressed and transformed, but never entirely eliminated.
Author : Piero Gleijeses
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469609681
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Visions of Freedom written by Piero Gleijeses and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
Author : Victor Webb
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027297630
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Language in South Africa written by Victor Webb and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language in South Africa (LiSA) debates the role of language and language planning in the reconstruction, development and transformation of post-apartheid democratic South Africa. The 1996 constitution of South Africa is founded on the political philosophy of pluralism and is directed at promoting democratic values, equity and non-discrimination, human rights, national unity and the development of all the country’s communities. The question asked in LiSA is how language planning can contribute towards the attainment of these national ideals. Set against the language political realities of the country — the a-symmetric power relations between the languages; the striking differences in the structural; functional and symbolic adaptation of the official languages; and the many language-related problems in the country — it debates the role of language in state administration, national integration, educational development and economic development. The volume concludes with a discussion of language development and language management.
Author : Iina Soiri
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064318
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Finland and National Liberation in Southern Africa written by Iina Soiri and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finland's special characteristics as a Nordic, non-aligned welfare state gave it the resources and motivation to support liberation movements - in spite of restrictions arising from trade interests and a reluctance to jeopardise the country's neutral image. The study shows that, although it is not an easy task, in a democracy ordinary, dedicated people can, over time, influence political decision making at its most closed and guarded area, foreign politics.
Author : Neville Alexander
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869142773
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Interviews with Neville Alexander written by Neville Alexander and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of interviews conducted between 2006 and 2010, activist and scholar Neville Alexander reflected on how the languages he had used throughout his life shaped his world and his relationships with his immediate and wider communities. A version of these conversations was published in German in 2011 by Drava Verlag. In this reconstruction, which is the only extensive (auto)biographical work about Neville Alexander in English text, his belief in the emancipatory potential of multilingualism frames, his vividly recalled life, and his incisive observations about language in post-apartheid South Africa are discussed. Alexander speaks candidly about his childhood in the Eastern Cape, his political awakening, and his Robben Island incarceration. He also gives an insider's view of how South Africa's post-apartheid language dispensation was shaped. The book also includes some of Neville Alexander's seminal writings on multilingualism, a rewarding yet often neglected aspect of his work.
Author : Victor N. Webb
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027218490
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Language in South Africa written by Victor N. Webb and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the role which language, or, more properly, languages, can perform in the reconstruction and development of South Africa. The approach followed in this book is characterised by a numbers of features - its aim is to be factually based and theoretically informed.
Author : Christian Mair
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042008663
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Politics of English as a World Language written by Christian Mair and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex politics of English as a world language provides the backdrop both for linguistic studies of varieties of English around the world and for postcolonial literary criticism. The present volume offers contributions from linguists and literary scholars that explore this common ground in a spirit of open interdisciplinary dialogue. Leading authorities assess the state of the art to suggest directions for further research, with substantial case studies ranging over a wide variety of topics - from the legitimacy of language norms of lingua franca communication to the recognition of newer post-colonial varieties of English in the online OED. Four regional sections treat the Caribbean (including the diaspora), Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Australasia and the Pacific Rim. Each section maintains a careful balance between linguistics and literature, and external and indigenous perspectives on issues. The book is the most balanced, complete and up-to-date treatment of the topic to date.
Author : Edgar H. Brookes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000624412
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Apartheid written by Edgar H. Brookes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which reflected reaction to these measures: Parliamentary debates, newspaper reports and policy statements by the leading political parties and religious denominations. The documents are headed by a full historical and analytical introduction.
Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108417973
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A History of African Linguistics written by H. Ekkehard Wolff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Author : Vic Alhadeff
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Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Newspaper History of South Africa written by Vic Alhadeff and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137015934
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages written by Tomasz Kamusella and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.
