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Language, Society, and Empowerment in Africa and Its Diaspora
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2022
Summary
Africa’s diversity is best illustrated linguistically. Thousands of endogenous and exogenous languages are linked to and central to the identity and reality of Africans. Language is a vital lens for analyzing these multifaceted challenges in Africa, where a deeper understanding of the entire linguistic landscape is germane to understanding sociopolitical and cultural systems. Concentrating on instrumental and emblematic functions of language in Africa, Language, Society, and Empowerment in Africa and Its Diaspora argues for the critical value of African languages beyond functionality into philosophical consideration of their importance for African unity and advancement. Akinloyè Òjó calls for the development and empowerment of African languages to serve in various domains, including the support of basic literacy and daily survival of their users. Òjó propagates ways to empower African languages for African sociocultural and economic development in the twenty-first century. The author productively engages works by linguists and language pedagogues to provide an ardent case for the empowerment of African languages in the renewed era of globalization, the internet, and an emergent Global Africa. Òjó posits and accentuates some of the notable modalities for empowering African languages in specialized domains for national and continental development.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-4471-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-4472-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
200
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Preface No access
Acknowledgements No access
Language in Africa No access Pages 1 - 18
Classifications of Languages in Africa No access Pages 19 - 32
Language, Ethnic Identity and Multilingualism in Africa No access Pages 33 - 54
A Panorama of Language Planning across Africa No access Pages 55 - 72
Language-Based Problems and National Development in Africa No access Pages 73 - 90
Empowering African Languages for Socio-Cultural and Economic Development in the 21st Cent No access Pages 91 - 108
The Emergent Field of African Language Pedagogy in Western Europe and North America No access Pages 109 - 128
Language Variation and Ethnicity: Case of African American English No access Pages 129 - 152
