Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Sociolinguistic Overview
"This book argues for the need to empower African indigenous languages for greater functions in national life. It makes an important and useful contribution to the understanding of the sociolinguistic and sociopolitical dimensions of language attitudes in the sub-Saharan African language context." "Overall, the book will interest all sociolinguists, language in education researchers and scholars, language policy makers in multilingual situations, and even politicians. Also, anyone interested in the complex African language context will find the book very informative, even stirring, while those involved with language issues in multilingual situations all over the world will find Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa interesting, stimulating, and valuable."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Contents
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The Language Scenario in SubSaharan African Countries
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14 |
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Sociopolitically interwoven language related problems
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23 |
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30 |
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Language Attitudes Research in SubSaharan Africa
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49 |
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67 |
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Attitudinal Dimensions
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82 |
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Attitudinal Perspectives of Language Use in Education
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96 |
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Some Implications of Language Attitudes Research
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112 |
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Questionnaire on Language Attitudes
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Common terms and phrases
African indigenous languages African languages Afrikaans Amharic atti attitudes towards languages attitudinal Bamgbose big languages bilingualism colonial communication crucial economic educational domain educational system effect Efik élite English language entrench especially esteem ethnic ethnolinguistic groups European languages exoglossic fact factors Fasold favour French low functions graphicised Hausa Igbo indigenous African languages indigenous languages Kiswahili language attitudes language attitudes research language planning language policy language speaker numbers languages and cultures languages in education large numbers learning lingua franca linguistic mainstream language major languages medium of instruction minority monolingualism mother tongue Multilingual and Multicultural multilingual contexts national language Nigeria northern Nigeria number of speakers official language particular language political Portuguese prestige primary school role SAAD SD Schmied small language groups societies sociolinguistic Somali speak speakers of small status sub-Saharan Africa sub-Saharan African countries Swahili Tanzania tend tudes vehicular languages Wolof Yoruba and Igbo