Globalisation and African Languages: Risks and BenefitsKatrin Bromber, Birgit Smieja Globalisation and African Languages links African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation' which increasingly undergoes critical review. Hence, African linguists of various provenience can make valuable contributions to this debate. In cultural matters, which by definition include language, there is often a sense that globalisation leads to a major trend of homogenisation, which results in a reduction of diversity on the one hand and, on the other, in new themes being incorporated into global (cultural) patterns. However, often conflicting and overlapping particularistic interests exist which have a constructive as well as destructive potential. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Language use and attitudes | 7 |
Der übergeordnete ideologische Rahmen der Sprachkonflikte weltweit | 9 |
Indianer und andere Minderheiten Überlegungen zu einer sprachplanerischen Minoritologie | 31 |
An underexploited national resource? | 53 |
Can a foreign language be a national medium of education? Linguistic ecology and equality in Namibia | 65 |
African languages in high modernity | 85 |
African privilege or necessity | 103 |
Language description and classification | 179 |
The impact of Kiswahili on Kiluguru | 181 |
Loan words in Swahili | 199 |
The noun phrase in the Kerebe language | 219 |
The infinitive as a part of speech in Swahili | 243 |
On vowel systems in the southern BoleTangale languages | 253 |
Xun as a type B language | 263 |
How many languages are there in Africa really? | 279 |
Language policy and education | 117 |
Using Northern Sotho as medium of instruction in vocational training | 119 |
The case of Malawi | 147 |
Attitudes among pupils in Lira and Mpigi Uganda | 163 |
Languages and language names in Mozambique 150 years ago and now | 297 |
Observations on Swahili and Midzichenda plant names | 313 |
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