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
Katrin Bromber and Birgit Smieja | 1 |
Univer | 13 |
with P Amakali Nalenale okwa li Once upon a time Tales | 28 |
Indianer und andere Minderheiten Überlegungen zu einer | 31 |
An underexploited national resource? | 53 |
African languages | 85 |
African privilege or necessity | 103 |
Using Northern Sotho as medium of instruction in | 119 |
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 |
Xun as a type B language | 263 |
How many languages are there in Africa really? | 279 |
Languages and language names in Mozambique | 297 |
Observations on Swahili and Midzichenda plant names | 313 |
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