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| Preface |
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1 Introduction: approach, questions and themes |
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1.1 What this book is about |
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1.2 Language and mainstream development discourse: `It's the languages, stupid!' |
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1.3 Language attitudes, ideological blinkers and scientific approaches |
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1.4 Language -- education -- development |
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1.5 Twenty themes to guide the reader |
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2 Background: Africa and the West -- a difficult relationship |
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2.1 Africa polarises: Westerners caught between attraction and repulsion |
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48 | (11) |
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2.2 Do we really know more about Africa than our (great--) grandparents did? |
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59 | (4) |
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2.3 Time and reason to rethink matters |
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2.4 Listening to Africans -- but how? |
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3 Perception: between ignorance, half--knowledge and distortion |
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3.1 Perception and reality |
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3.2 Superficial information, half-knowledge and ignorance |
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3.3 Eurocentrism and Orientalism |
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3.4 Paternalism: why the West constantly interferes in African affairs |
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4 De-marginalisation: the `cradle of humanity' and home of human language |
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4.1 Africa in global history |
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4.2 What is marginal: Africa or our knowledge about it? |
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4.3 We are all `Africans' |
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4.4 Explaining language history and diversity |
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5 Re-conceptualisation: the overdue linguistic turn in development discourse |
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5.1 The language question in academic and political discourse |
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5.2 African Renaissance without African languages? |
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5.3 European linguistic and cultural imperialism |
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5.4 To whom do African languages belong? |
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6 Challenges: linguistic plurality and diversity -- problem or resource? |
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6.1 Linguistic diversity and the latitudinal gradient |
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6.2 What does linguistic plurality mean in the African context? |
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6.3 African and other languages in Africa |
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6.4 African languages in official functions |
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6.5 The political and economic dimensions of linguistic plurality |
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6.6 African `mother tongues' and Africa's future |
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6.7 Languages and globalisation |
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6.8 Language as `barrier' and language as `facilitator' |
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6.9 Multi-tiered communication landscapes in Africa |
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6.10 The fundamental multidimensionality of language |
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6.11 A word on language change, death, birth and revitalisation |
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6.12 Multilingualism versus multiple semilingualism |
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6.13 Language and power in Africa |
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6.14 Chinese Whispers: breakdown of communication in North--South dialogue |
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7 Future: synopsis and options for language planning |
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7.1 The role of language in development communication |
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7.2 The final act of decolonisation: liberating the African languages |
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7.3 The options for sustainable language planning are on the table |
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7.4 Managing multilingualism: language planning is social planning |
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7.5 `Informed choices' versus `uninformed choices' |
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7.6 Overcoming underdevelopment and mass poverty in Africa via adequate language policies for education |
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8 Agenda: arguments and steps |
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8.1 Eight arguments in favour of substantial changes concerning language policies in education in Africa |
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270 | (5) |
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8.2 Ten steps towards integrating indigenous languages into national education systems in Africa |
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9 Basic sociolinguistic facts: languages, dialects, numbers of speakers |
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284 | (21) |
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9.1 Political and historical dimensions of language in Africa |
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284 | (4) |
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9.2 Languages, dialects and dialect continua |
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288 | (5) |
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9.3 Languages and their numbers of speakers |
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293 | (3) |
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9.4 Africa's big languages |
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296 | (4) |
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9.5 African language phyla and families |
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300 | (5) |
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305 | (11) |
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Introductory and further reading |
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308 | (8) |
| Glossary |
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316 | (29) |
| Index |
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