TY - BOOK ID - 18383934 TI - Language and national identity in Africa PY - 2008 SN - 9780199286751 0199286752 9780199286744 0199286744 9786611341732 1281341738 0191536814 1435642244 9780191536816 9781435642249 9781281341730 6611341730 1383043272 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Anthropological linguistics KW - Nationalism KW - Africa KW - Languages KW - Political aspects. KW - Sociolinguistics KW - African languages KW - National movements KW - Anthropo-linguistics KW - Ethnolinguistics KW - Language and ethnicity KW - Linguistic anthropology KW - Linguistics and anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Eastern Hemisphere UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18383934 AB - This book focuses on language, culture, and identity in nineteen countries in Africa. Leading specialists, mainly from Africa, describe national linguistic and political histories, assess the status of majority and minority languages, and consider the role of language in ethnic conflict. ER -