Language Policy and Economics: The Language Question in Africa

✍ Scribed by Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 252
Series: Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the perennial question of how to promote Africa’s indigenous languages as medium of instruction in educational systems. Breaking with the traditional approach to the continent’s language question by focusing on the often overlooked issue of the link between African languages and economic development, Language Policy and Economics argues that African languages are an integral part of a nation’s socio-political and economic development. Therefore, the book argues that any language policy designed to promote these languages in such higher domains as the educational system in particular must have economic advantages if the intent is to succeed, and proposes Prestige Planning as the way to address this issue. The proposition is a welcome break away from language policies which pay lip-service to the empowerment of African languages while, by default, strengthening the stranglehold of imported European languages.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
The Language Question in Africa....Pages 1-34
Language Planning and Ideology in Colonial Africa....Pages 35-54
Language Planning and Ideologies in Postcolonial Africa....Pages 55-81
Globalization, the Spread of English, and Language Planning in Africa....Pages 83-104
Language Planning and the Medium-of-Instruction Conundrum in Africa....Pages 105-123
Why Inherited Colonial Language Ideologies Persist in Postcolonial Africa....Pages 125-155
Toward Prestige Planning for African Languages: A Response to the Language Question in Africa?....Pages 157-187
Prestige Planning for Vernacular Language Education around the World: Successes and Failures....Pages 189-211
Conclusions, Challenges, and Prospects for African Languages....Pages 213-223
Back Matter....Pages 225-232

✦ Subjects

Language Policy and Planning;African Languages;Multilingualism;Economic Policy;Game Theory

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