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9780826495143

Globalization and Language Vitality Perspectives from Africa

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826495143

  • ISBN10:

    0826495141

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-01-05
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Summary

This book examines the effect of globalization on languages in Africa. In contrast to previous studies, the book examines whether or not globalization is affecting languages in the same way and at the same rate in different countries, and how local experi

Table of Contents

Introduction
Trajectories of Language Endangerment in South Africa
The Circumstances of Language Shift and Death in Southern Africa
African Modernity, Transnationalism, and Language Vitality: Portuguese in Multilingual Mozambique
The Lives of Local and Regional Congolese Languages in Globalized Linguistic Markets
Globalization and Sociolinguistic Stratification in North Africa: The case of Morocco
The Ascent of Wolof as an Urban Vernacular and National Lingua Franca in Senegal
On the Futurology of Linguistic Development
Globalization and the Sociolinguistics of the Internet: Between English and Kiswahili
Writing Locality in Globalized Swahili: Semiotizing Space in a Tanzanian novel
From Africa to Africa: Globalization, Migration and Language Vitality
Creating the Conditions for a Counter-Hegemonic Strategy: African Languages in the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
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