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Title: Explorations into Language Use in Africa

Explorations into Language Use in Africa

by Augustin Simo Bobda (Volume editor)
©2008 Conference proceedings XIV, 237 Pages
Linguistics
Series: DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture, Volume 70

Summary

As the title suggests, this collection explores some of the many facets of the language question as experienced by Africans today. This language question in Africa involves, in one way or another, the various languages used on the continent, namely the exoglossics languages, the indigenous languages, and pidginised languages like Pidgin English. It has to do with status planning, but also the structural forms of the languages considered. It has been examined in a multitude of scientific publications and in different fora, including the 2004 LAUD symposium whose main theme was «Empowerment through language», of which this book is an emanation and an extension.

Details

Pages
XIV, 237
Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631562390
Language
English
Keywords
Aufsatzsammlung Sociolinguistics Afrikanische Sprachen African languages Phonology
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008. XIV, 237 pp., num. fig. and tables

Biographical notes

Augustin Simo Bobda (Volume editor)

The Editor: Augustin Simo Bobda is professor of English Language and Linguistics and Chair of the Department of English at the Advanced School of Education (Ecole Normale Supérieure), University of Yaounde I (Cameroon). He has held several visiting positions in America, Europe and Asia, the most recent being a one-semester visiting professorship in the School of English, The University of Hong Kong, for four consecutive academic years (2003-2007). The author has published a wide range of journal articles, book chapters, monographs and textbooks on several aspects of general and applied linguistics, phonology, sociolinguistics and language teaching. His main areas of interest include language use in Africa.

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