Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa: Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the Turn of the 21 st Century (DASK – ... Papers on Research in Language and Culture) - Hardcover

Figueira, Carla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631644361 ISBN 13: 9783631644362

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013

Synopsis

This study explores the argument that postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial European countries at the turn of the 21st Century. It focuses on the external LSPs developed by the governments of Portugal, Brazil, United Kingdom, France and Germany towards Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau from the 1990s to the present. The study offers a perspective on the web of relationships involving European ex-colonial powers and the African postcolonial countries of Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The author seeks to examine the development of external (European) LSPs and the construction of politico-linguistic blocs in a complex context whilst taking into account the colonial heritage and its lingering dependencies, the construction and maintenance of nationhood and the increasing globalisation of the world.

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About the Author

Carla Figueira is an International Relations graduate of the Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal). She holds a Masters and a PhD degree in Cultural Policy and Management from the City University London and currently works at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631644361
• ISBN 13: 9783631644362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 355