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Subtitle: the African renaissance as a challenge for language planning : papers and documents from the panel on "Language Policy in Africa" at the 17th Biennal [i.e. Biennial] Conference of the German African Studies Association held at the University of Leipzig, March 30-April 1, 2000
By: H. Ekkehard Wolff (ed.).
Contributors: Wolff, Ekkehard.
Series: Beiträge zur Afrikanistik -- Bd. 14.
Publisher: Lit Verlag; Distributed in North America by Transaction
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Münster; New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Language policy -- Africa -- Congresses; Language planning -- Africa -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "The book addresses the African language question with emphasis on the high potential and future roles of the indigenous languages for development in Africa. Focus is on South Africa's language policy as a role model for the whole continent. The book makes an easy-to-read introduction to central issues of language planning in Africa, for students of the social sciences, education, and linguistics as much as for language practitioners, educationists, administrators, politicians and decisions-makers. The rich appendices offer reference tools with regard to sociolinguistic profiles of all African countries and important documents regarding linguistic rights and the role of language in Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.