Full Description
This volume focuses on language planning in the Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe, explaining the linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts, current language situation (including language-in-education planning), the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous to the situations described, and draw on their experience and extensive fieldwork there.
The extended case studies contained in this volume draw together the literature on each of the polities to present an overview of the existing research available, while also providing new research-based information. The purpose of this volume is to provide an up-to-date overview of the language situation in each polity based on a series of key questions, in the hope that this might facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities where similar issues may arise.
This book comprises case studies originally published in the journal Current Issues in Language Planning.
Contents
1. Language policy and planning in Africa: Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu, Richard B. Baldauf Jr. and Robert B. Kaplan 2. The Language Situation in Cameroon Jean-Paul Kouega 3. The sociolinguistics of nationalism in the Sudan: the politicisation of Arabic and the Arabicisation of politics Ashraf Abdelhay, Busi Makoni, Sinfree B. Makoni and Abdel Rahim Mugaddam 4. A Very 'Oily' Sociolinguistics of the 'New' Sudan: Old Wine in New Bottles Busi Makoni, Ashraf Abdelhay and Sinfree B. Makoni 5. Zimbabwe Colonial and Post-Colonial Language Policy and Planning Practices Sinfree B. Makoni, Busi Dube and Pedzisai Mashiri 6. A critical analysis of the historical and contemporary status of minority languages in Zimbabwe Sinfree B. Makoni
