Download or read book La d finition d une strat gie relative la promotion des langues africaines written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La d finition d une strat gie relative la promotion des langues africaines written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Languages Development and the State written by Richard Fardon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development
Download or read book Africa Since 1935 written by Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardcover edition of volume 8 was published in 1994. This paperback edition is the eighth and final volume to be published in the UNESCO General History of Africa. Volume 8 examines the period from 1935 to the present, and details the role of African states in the Second World War and the rise of postwar Africa. This is one of the most important books in the entire series, and as such, it is an unabridged paperback.
Download or read book Globalisation and African Languages written by Katrin Bromber and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalisation and African Languages links African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation' which increasingly undergoes critical review. Hence, African linguists of various provenience can make valuable contributions to this debate. In cultural matters, which by definition include language, there is often a sense that globalisation leads to a major trend of homogenisation, which results in a reduction of diversity on the one hand and, on the other, in new themes being incorporated into global (cultural) patterns. However, often conflicting and overlapping particularistic interests exist which have a constructive as well as destructive potential. This aspect leads directly to the first of three sections of this volume, LANGUAGE USE AND ATTITUDES, which addresses some of the burning issues in sociolinguistic research. Since this research area is tightly linked to the educational domain these important issues are addressed in articles that comprise the second section of this volume: LANGUAGE POLICY AND EDUCATION. The third section of the volume presents articles dealing with LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION AND CLASSIFICATION demonstrating which parts of different language systems are affected through contact under historical and modern conditions. The contributions of all the well-known scholars in this volume show that globalisation is a two-way street, and to ensure that all sides benefit in a reciprocal manner means the impacts have to be monitored globally, regionally, nationally and locally. By disseminating and emphasising these linguistic findings as part of the global cultural heritage, African language studies may offer urgently needed new perspectives towards a rapidly changing world.
Download or read book General History of Africa written by International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 1993-12-31 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of UNESCO's most important publishing projects in the last thirty years, the General History of Africa marks a major breakthrough in the recognition of Africa's cultural heritage. Offering an internal perspective of Africa, the eight-volume work provides a comprehensive approach to the history of ideas, civilizations, societies and institutions of African history. The volumes also discuss historical relationships among Africans as well as multilateral interactions with other cultures and continents.
Download or read book Langues cultures et d veloppement en Afrique written by Henry Tourneux and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis le rapport de la Banque mondiale sur le développement (2004), la réussite ou l'échec des projets se voient explicitement corrélés au degré d'implication des populations " pauvres " concernées dans le processus de prise de décision relatif à leur mise en œuvre. Il est donc capital de se demander en quelles langues ces " pauvres " peuvent faire entendre leur voix. Généralement, la pauvreté s'accompagne de ce que l'on peut appeler une " dépendance communicationnelle ", accentuée par la fragmentation linguistique due au fort multilinguisme de la plupart des pays africains. Cette dépendance n'affecte pas uniquement les groupes linguistiques très minoritaires ; elle reflète la marginalisation de toutes les langues africaines par rapport aux langues officielles d'origine européenne. Si la maîtrise des ressources communicationnelles constitue un critère essentiel pour la durabilité du développement local, comment peut-il se faire que la question linguistique en général, et la langue localement principale en particulier (celle que la communauté locale emploie le plus), soient ignorées ou voient leur rôle minimisé, comme le démontre le silence qu'observent sur ce sujet les spécialistes de la communication pour le développement ainsi que la majorité des sociologues de l'éducation ? Deux positions se font face lorsqu'il s'agit de résoudre le problème de la fragmentation linguistique. La première recommande d'employer une langue qui transcende cette fragmentation ; ce peut être la langue léguée par la colonisation, ou une langue africaine véhiculaire - les tenants du panafricanisme vont même jusqu'à prôner l'emploi d'une seule langue africaine à l'échelle du continent. L'autre option est celle de la durabilité communicationnelle, qui implique la maîtrise locale des questions d'intérêt local, exprimée par l'usage d'une langue locale ; elle implique également l'égalité en matière de communication et l'égalité dans l'accès à l'information. Si les experts admettent d'emblée la première option (n'allant toutefois pas jusqu'à préconiser l'emploi d'une langue véhiculaire africaine, en général), ils écartent a priori la seconde, qui les dépouillerait de leur pouvoir linguistique. L'écoute des " pauvres " dans leur propre langue et suivant leur propre code culturel, permet une nouvelle compréhension des problèmes que leur cause la fragilité de leurs conditions de vie ; elle permet encore de comprendre leur réactivité d'un point de vue englobant (holistique) et non pas sectoriel (purement technique).
Download or read book UNESCO WIPO World Forum on the Protection of Folklore Phuket April 8 to 10 1997 written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains the texts of the speeches and papers presented at the World Forum as well as of the "Plan of Action". The Forum was organized by UNESCO and WIPO in cooperation with Ministry of Commerce, Thailand.
Download or read book The African Palimpsest written by Chantal Zabus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of ‘indigenization’ whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively ‘African’. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest – a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again – the book examines such well-known West African writers as Achebe, Armah, Ekwensi, Kourouma, Okara, Saro–Wiwa, Soyinka and Tutuola as well as lesser-known writers from francophone and anglophone Africa. Providing a great variety of case-studies in Nigerian Pidgin, Akan, Igbo, Maninka, Yoruba, Wolof and other African languages, the book also clarifies the vital interface between Europhone African writing and the new outlets for African artistic expression in (auto-)translation, broadcast television, radio and film.
Download or read book English Around the World written by Jenny Cheshire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social development of English as a world language emerges from a comprehensive account of our current knowledge of it as well as the gaps in understanding which future research can remedy.
Download or read book Language in South Africa written by Victor Webb and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language in South Africa (LiSA) debates the role of language and language planning in the reconstruction, development and transformation of post-apartheid democratic South Africa. The 1996 constitution of South Africa is founded on the political philosophy of pluralism and is directed at promoting democratic values, equity and non-discrimination, human rights, national unity and the development of all the country’s communities. The question asked in LiSA is how language planning can contribute towards the attainment of these national ideals. Set against the language political realities of the country — the a-symmetric power relations between the languages; the striking differences in the structural; functional and symbolic adaptation of the official languages; and the many language-related problems in the country — it debates the role of language in state administration, national integration, educational development and economic development. The volume concludes with a discussion of language development and language management.
Download or read book Nationalism Ethnicity and the State written by John Coakley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book is the first to offer a truly comprehensive account of the vibrant topic of nationalism. Packed with a series of rich, illustrative examples, the book examines this powerful and remarkable political force by exploring: - Definitions of nationalism - Language and nationalism - Religion and Nationalism - Nationalist history - The social roots of ideologies and the significance of race, gender and class - Nationalist movements, from dominant majorities to peripheral minorities socio-economic and sociological perspectives - State responses to nationalism Supported by a number of helpful illustrations, tables and diagrams, the text is both engaging and highly informative. Nationalism, Ethnicity and the State: Making and Breaking Nations will prove an insightful read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in the area of Politics and International Relations.
Download or read book Studies in the Linguistic Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politique ducative et politique linguistique en Afrique written by Maxime Z. Somé and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'analphabétisme au Burkina Faso touche plus d'un adulte sur deux et les taux de scolarisation y sont excessivement bas. L'auteur considère qu'une politique linguistique cohérente favoriserait la sauvegarde des cultures africaines et assurerait la promotion de l'enseignement du français normatif. Il propose de valoriser les langues africaines dans le système éducatif africain.
Download or read book Explorations Into Language Use in Africa written by Augustin Simo Bobda and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emanation and extension of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held Apr. 19-22, 2004 at the Universiteat Koblenz-Landau.
Download or read book Langues et politiques de langues en Afrique noire written by Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Voilà 25 ans que l'Unesco organise des conférences, réunions, colloques, consultations, stages... et séminaires internationaux et régionaux sur les aspects multiples des problèmes que posent la modernisation et l'emploi des langues africaines dans l'alphabétisation, l'enseignement scolaire et les activités culturelles. Les spécialistes qu'elle dut consulter et réunir à ces occasions décrivent ici, en toute sérénité, les difficultés réelles qu'il faudra surmonter et exposent sans équivoque comment les langues africaines, enfin réhabilitées et systématiquement enseignées et utilisées dans les écoles, favoriseront le développement harmonieux des pays africains en évitant le déracinement et l'acculturation de leurs élites. Cet ouvrage que Nubia publie dans le cadre d'une collection nouvelle (Uhuuru ou "Libération") nous montre ainsi les langues africaines dans le rôle éminent et irremplaçable qu'elles jouent en tant que véhicules de savoir, sources de culture et facteurs de développement et de libération."--Last page.
Download or read book Langues africaines et langues d enseignement written by Raymond Renard and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce volume comporte une synthese de la situation des langues nationales et des reformes linguistiques engagees dans les differents pays representes ainsi qu'un essai sur les incidences de la reformesur l'enseignement du francais. Il s'adresse donc tout particulierement a ceux qui se trouvent confrontes par leur fonction ou leur recherches aux problemes de l'introduction d'une reforme linguistique dans l'enseignement primaire en milieu plurilingue, particulierement en Afrique.
