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" Languages in Africa : "
edited by Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer.
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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics(2013 :, Washington, D.C.)
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Languages in Africa : : multilingualism, language policy, and education /\ edited by Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer.
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Washington, DC :: Georgetown University Press,, [2014]
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, ©2014
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Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series
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1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) :: illustrations
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1626161534
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1626161526
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9781626161528
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"Contributors to this volume came together to discuss the problems and promise of African multilingualism at a joint meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics and the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics in Washington, D.C., in March 2013. As part of that joint conference, a workshop on language and education in Africa was organized by Carolyn Adger of the Center for Applied Linguistics. That workshop became the inspiration for this volume"--Introduction.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language-written, widespread, sometimes used in school-surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility-and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect lang.
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African languages-- Social aspects, Congresses.
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Language policy-- Africa, Congresses.
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Multilingualism-- Africa, Congresses.
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Native language and education-- Africa, Congresses.
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African languages-- Social aspects.
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Afrikanska språk.
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Flerspråkighet.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- General.
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Language policy.
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Modersmålsundervisning.
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Multilingualism.
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Native language and education.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Språkpolitik.
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Africa.
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306.44/6096
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P115.5.A35G46 2013eb
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Kramer, Ruth, (Ruth T.)
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Tlale Boyer, One
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Zsiga, Elizabeth C.
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