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African students. --- Communism

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"This book explores the largely unexamined history of Africans who lived, studied, and worked in the German Democratic Republic. African students started coming to the East in 1951 as invited guests who were offered scholarships by the East German government to prepare them for primarily technical and scientific careers once they returned home to their own countries. Drawn from previously unexplored archives in Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, and the United Kingdom, African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975 uncovers individual stories and reconstructs the pathways that African students took in their journeys to the GDR and what happened once they got there. The book places these experiences within the larger context of German history, questioning how ideas of African racial difference that developed from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries impacted East German attitudes toward the students. The book additionally situates African experiences in the overlapping contexts of the Cold War and decolonization. During this time, nations across the Western and Soviet blocs were inviting Africans to attend universities and vocational schools as part of a drive to offer development aid to newly independent countries and encourage them to side with either the United States or Soviet Union in the Cold War. African leaders recognized their significance to both Soviet and American blocs, and played on the desire of each to bring newly independent nations into their folds. Students also recognized their importance to Cold War competition, and used it to make demands of the East German state. The book is thus located at the juncture of many different histories, including those of modern Germany, modern Africa, the Global Cold War, and decolonization"--

African students --- Black people --- Decolonization --- Education (Higher) --- Germany (East) --- History

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Angloscene engages Afro-Chinese interactions within Beijing's aspirationally cosmopolitan student class. Jay Ke-Schutte explores the ways in which many contemporary interactions between Chinese and African university studies are mediated through complex intersectional relationships between whiteness, English, and cosmopolitan aspiration. At the heart of these tensions, a question persistently emerges: how does English become more than a language--and whiteness more than a race? Engaging this inquiry, Ke-Schutte explores twenty-first century Afro-Chinese encounters as translational events that diagram the discursive contours of a changing trans-national political order--one that will certainly be shaped by African and Chinese relations.

College students --- African students --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions

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This book explores African international students’ lived experience within Chinese higher education, including their language ideologies, investment in Chinese language learning and the (re)shaping of identities and aspirations. Whilst high English proficiency has been sought by globally mobile students to play the ‘class game’ and gain entrée to the circle of elites, considerably less attention has been paid to how shifting global structures and China’s semi-peripheral position shape its language learners’ investment and identity construction. Drawing upon a series of interviews, the book deciphers African students’ logics of linguistic exchanges within the geopolitical and geo-economic context of China-African relations. The students invested heavily into Chinese language learning and use, while displaying perfectionism, linguistic entrepreneurship and linguistic insecurity. As the value of their Chinese linguistic capital increases, they reassessed their sense of themselves and produced different social identities, which includes the idea of ‘the world is my oyster’, contributing to Africa’s sustainable development and the disposition to ‘tell China’s story well’. This work transgresses monolingual dominance (i.e. English) in the existing body of international student mobility and second language acquisition (SLA) research, as great importance is assigned to Chinese as linguistic capital in South-South student migration. The book is of interest to researchers in international higher education, international student mobilities, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, languages education, and Chinese language teaching and learning. Wen Xu is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Language Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research interests focus on the intersection of language, education and society. Currently, her research projects and publications encompass studies of international students’ lived experiences in China.

African students --- Chinese language --- Second language acquisition. --- Study and teaching. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Language and languages --- Educational sociology. --- Education, Higher. --- Language Education. --- Sociology of Education. --- Higher Education.

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Les langues font l'objet de descriptions, au même titre que les atomes, les espèces animales ou les fluctuations du marché économique. Pour les décrire, il faut des instruments : des signes. Des signes le plus souvent empruntés au langage naturel. Mais c'est déjà par des signes, oraux, écrits, que les langues se manifestent dans l'usage quotidien. Aussi existe-t-il en linguistique un risque - à la fois subtil et persistant - de confondre les signes qui servent à la description des langues avec les signes qui rendent ces langues présentes à l'oeil et à l'oreille des locuteurs. Ouvrage posthume édité par ses élèves, le célèbre "Cours de linguistique générale" expose la découverte de "la" langue par Saussure. La présente étude en propose une lecture nouvelle dans le but de déterminer le statut de la représentation dans son rapport avec la langue.

Returned students --- Brain drain --- African students --- College graduates --- Etudiants formés à l'étranger --- Exode des cerveaux --- Etudiants africains --- Diplômés d'université --- Social conditions --- Employment --- Conditions sociales --- Travail --- Language and languages --- Semiotics --- Philosophy --- Saussure, Ferdinand de, --- Semiotics. --- Philosophy. --- Etudiants formés à l'étranger --- Diplômés d'université --- Language and languages - Philosophy --- Saussure, Ferdinand de, - 1857-1913 --- Analyse linguistique. --- Représentation (linguistique) --- Critique et interprétation.