Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The aim of this book is to inform both scholars and the public about the nature and extent of the problem of language decline and death in Africa.  It resourcefully traces the main causes and circumstances of language endangerment, the processes and extent of language shift and death, and the consequences of language loss to the continent’s rich linguistic and cultural heritage.  The book outlines some of the challenges that have emerged out of the situation.

African languages --- Sociolinguistics --- Africa --- Language attrition --- Language maintenance --- Language obsolescence --- Language obsolescence - Africa. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language loyalty --- Maintenance of language --- Language death --- Obsolescence of languages --- Language loss --- Maintenance --- Obsolescence --- Historical linguistics --- Endangered languages --- Extinct languages --- Bilingualism --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book explores the bidirectional relationship between language and poverty, from the perspectives of linguistics, language policy and planning, economics, anthropology, and sociology. On the one hand, poverty affects language survival; in modern times the fundamental determinants of language shift and language death are economic. On the other hand, the languages people speak, or don’t speak, can influence their economic status in substantial ways, limiting or facilitating access to jobs and education and full participation in the functions of the society. The issues encompassed by the twin themes of the volume have assumed growing significance in an era of increasing globalization and accelerating change in economies, technologies and traditional social structures. They are of practical concern to people in a wide range of disciplines and professions, including politicians, educators, social workers, language planners, and others who work and live in multilingual contexts.

Language and languages --- Language maintenance. --- Poverty. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Language loyalty --- Maintenance of language --- Sociolinguistics --- Economic aspects. --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Maintenance --- Language and languages Economic aspects --- Economic aspects

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The conference, "Empowerment through Language", was centrally concerned with the concept of power and/or empowerment as observed in the status and use of language(s) and their speakers in bilingual and multilingual communities. The book discusses the theoretical issues inherent in the relation between language and power, the empowerment strategies involved in language policy and language planning situations, and the issue of language endangerment in Africa, i.e., the fate of minority languages and their speakers and the sociopolitical factors perpetuating their exclusion from access to knowledge and skills. The volume constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists from many countries who explore the exciting interdisciplinary area of language, power, and linguistic empowerment. Broadly speaking, the papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language policy and language planning situations in multilingual settings, language choices, code switches, and associated topics. Thus, the aim of the volume is to open up language policy and language planning issues as observed in multilingual contexts (nations, institutions, other settings, and domains) to the wider community of critical sociolinguistics by concentrating on the relationship between language and power. More particularly, it offers a decidedly sociolinguistic perspective to the study of language and power, which likewise has been tackled from other perspectives in the areas of sociology and political science. This interdisciplinary relationship is important both for linguistics and for the sociology of language. In this way, the book is an important contribution to general linguistics, sociolinguistics, minority issues in multilingual settings as well as the social sciences. In honor of his upcoming 80th birthday (2006) , Fishman's colleagues and former students are preparing five volumes by him or about him, this being one of them.

Sociolinguistics --- Sociolinguistics. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Language policy. --- Language planning. --- Language and languages --- Planned language change --- Glottopolitics --- Institutional linguistics --- Language and state --- Languages, National --- Languages, Official --- National languages --- Official languages --- State and language --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Planning --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Communication policy --- Language planning --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Language policy --- Langage. Sociologie. (Collection) --- Taal. Sociologie. (Reeks) --- intercultural communication. --- language planning.