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Soft cover. Condition: New. Summary:"How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durexplanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power"-- Provided by publisher.…

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Condition: New. This book explains why many governments in Africa are including African languages alongside European languages as media of instruction in elementary schools. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 b/w illus. 1 map 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; CFB; CFDM; JNF; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500. . 2015. Paperback. . . . .…

Condition: New. This book explains why many governments in Africa are including African languages alongside European languages as media of instruction in elementary schools. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 b/w illus. 1 map 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; CFB; CFDM; JNF; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - How do governments in Africa make decisions about language What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.…

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Condition: New. This book explains why many governments in Africa are including African languages alongside European languages as media of instruction in elementary schools. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 b/w illus. 1 map 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; CFB; JPQB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644. . 2014. Hardback. . . . . …

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Condition: New. This book explains why many governments in Africa are including African languages alongside European languages as media of instruction in elementary schools. Num Pages: 336 pages, 23 b/w illus. 1 map 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1H; CFB; JPQB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644. . 2014. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - How do governments in Africa make decisions about language What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa encourages a vision of Africa as a fragmented continent, with language maps only perpetuating this vision by drawing discrete language groups. In reality, however, most people can communicate with most others within and across linguistic boundaries, even if not in languages taught or learned in schools.Many disciplines have looked carefully at language movement and change on the continent, buttheir lack of interaction has prevented the emergence of a cohesive picture of African languages. Tracing Language Movement in Africa gathers eighteen scholars together to offer a trulymultidisciplinary representation of language in Africa, combining insights from history, archaeology, religion, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. The resulting volume illuminates commonalities and distinctions in these disciplines' understanding of language change and movement in Africa. The volume is empirical -- aiming to represent language more accurately on the continent -- as well as theoretical. It identifies the theories that each discipline uses to make sense of languagemovement in Africa in plain terms and highlights the themes that cut across all disciplines: how scholars use data, understand boundaries, represent change, and conceptualize power. The volume isorganized to reflect differing conceptions of language that arise from its discipline-specific contributions: that is, tendencies to study changes that consolidate language or those that splinter it, viewing languages as whole or in part.Each contribution includes a short explanation of a discipline's theoretical and methodological approaches to language movement and change to ensure that the chapters are accessible to non-specialists, followed by an illustrative empirical casestudy. This volume will inspire multidisciplinary conversations around the study of language change in Africa, opening new interdisciplinary dialogue and spurring scholars to adapt the questions, data,and method of other disciplines to the problems that animate their own fields. Many disciplines study language movement and change in Africa, but they rarely interact. Here, eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines explore differing conceptions of language movement in Africa through empirical case studies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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