Living through languages
Subtitle: an African tribute to René Dirven
By: edited by Christa van der Walt.
Contributors: Van der Walt, C.; Dirven, René.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sun Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stellenbosch
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781920109707
Subjects: Sociolinguistics -- Africa.; Language policy -- Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ujamaa and the creation of the new Waswahili / Jan Blommaert; title: The effect of language policy on language attitudes : a case study of young Khoesan language speakers in Botswana / Herman Batibo, Birgit Smieja; title: Mismatch or misfit? : critical perspectives on language policy development in South Africa / Theodorus du Plessis; title: The emergence of "new mother tongues" in Africa and its implications : the example of Cameroon / Augustin Simo Bobda; title: Observing trilingual acquisition in two pre-school children / Riana Roos-Paola; title: The dynamics of language policy in Namibia : a view from cognitive sociolinguistics / Martin Pütz; title: Aspects of the meaning of the word racism / Willem J. Botha; title: The non-use of African languages in education in Africa / Vic Webb; title: Overlapping and divergent agendas : writing and applied linguistics research / Albert Weideman; title: The transformative agenda of educational linguistics for English language teaching in Africa / Christa van de Walt.