Globalization and language vitality: perspectives from black Africa
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Continuum 2008
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Colonization, Globalization and Language Vitality in Africa: An Introduction; 2. Trajectories of Language Endangerment in South Africa; 3. The Circumstances of Language Shift and Death in Southern Africa; 4. African Modernity, Transnationalism and Language Vitality: Portuguese in Multilingual Mozambique; 5. The Lives of Local and Regional Congolese Languages in Globalized Linguistic Markets; 6. Globalization and Sociolinguistic Stratification in North Africa: The Case of Morocco
This book discusses the effects of globalization on languages in Africa. In contrast to previous studies, the contributors examine whether or not globalization is affecting African languages in the same ways and at the same rate in different countries, and how local experiences of language change vary from place to place. Rather than seeing English as the 'killer language' par excellence, the contributors probe ways in which languages are being used side by side to complement each other in some contexts while competing against European colonial languages in others. The result is a diverse canv
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 291 pages)
ISBN:9781441170736
1441170731
9780826495143
0826495141
082649515X
9780826495150

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