Language and national identity in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20418106 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Andrew Simpson (0000-0001-6584-6451) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 367 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Language and national identity in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199286744.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388156359 |
| ISBN | 9780199286744 |
| Open Library | OL16767747M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the nations of the Horn, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Each chapter describes and examines the country's linguistic and political history and the relation of its languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identities, and assesses the relative status of majority and minority languages and the role of language in ethnic conflict. Of the book's authors, fifteen are from Africa and seven from Europe and the USA. Jargon-free, fully referenced, and illustrated with seventeen maps, this book will be of value to a wide range of readers in linguistics, politics, history, sociology, and anthropology. It will interest everyone wishing to understand the dynamic interactions between language and politics in Africa, in the past and now.
African languages · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Identity (music) · Jargon · language and ethnicity · language and national identity · language and politics · language history · Language policy · Linguistics · majority language · minority languages · National identity · Political science · Politics · Sierra leone · Social science · Sociology · Tanzania · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Language and Culture · Law · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Africa · Anthropological linguistics · Languages · Nationale identiteit · Nationalism · Political aspects · Taal
Literacy and the Spread of Stateless Nationalisms
Micro declared language policy or not
Multilingualism and theories of second language acquisition in Africa
National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria
Language of instruction
Language contact, language mixing and identity
Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries
La molteplicità e la crisi
Sociolinguistic challenges of the post-1991 Ethiopian Language Policy
On the Universality of Auxiliary Verbs
Linguistic diversity as a challenge and an opportunity for improved legal policy
Your English Is Suspect”
Nationalism and Media
Navigating Lingala
New Nationalism and Development in Africa
Transformation of National Identity, Geo-politics and Nation Building in Post-colonial African States
A losing battle? Interrogating the importance of ‘minority’ languages in expressing symbols of national identity in Zimbabwe
Geography and linguistics
African Englishes and creative writing
Towards developmental world Englishes
| Citations per year | 1.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |