Globalisation and African Languages

Globalisation and African Languages intends to link African language studies to the concept of 'globalisation'. However, even in the linguistic sense often conflicting and overlapping particularistic interests exist which have a constructive as well as destructive potential. Hence, the contributions to this volume by well-known linguists aim at portraying different aspects/areas of research, i.e. (a) LANGUAGE USE AND ATTITUDES, addressing some of the burning issues in sociolinguistic research; (b) LANGUAGE POLICY AND EDUCATION, investigating the educational domain, and (c) LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION AND CLASSIFICATION demonstrating which parts of different language systems are affected through contact under historical and modern conditions.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Tabula gratulatoria
Karsten Legere : African language studies on the move : a short biography
Karsten Legere : a bibliography
Introduction	p. 1
Language use and attitudes
Der ubergerodnete ideologische Rahmen der Sprachkonflikte weltweit	p. 9
Indianer und andere Minderheiten : Uberlegungen zu einer sprachplanerischen Minoritologie	p. 31
Setswana : an under-exploited national resource?	p. 53
Can a 'foreign' language be a national medium of education? : linguistic ecology and equality in Namibia	p. 65
Revisiting reversing language shift : African languages in high modernity	p. 85
Triglossia : African privilege or necessity	p. 103
Language policy and education
Using Northern Sotho as a medium of instruction in vocational training	p. 119
Developing a language policy in an African country : the case of Malawi	p. 147
Writing and reading in English and L1 : attitudes among pupils in Lira and Mpigi, Uganda	p. 163
Language description and classification
The impact of Kiswahili on Kiluguru	p. 181
Loan words in Swahili	p. 199
The noun phrase in the Kerebe language	p. 219
The infinitive as a part of speech in Swahili	p. 243
On vowel systems in the southern Bole-Tangale languages	p. 253
!Xun as a type B language	p. 263
How many languages are there in Africa, really?	p. 279
Languages and language names in Mozambique, 150 years ago and now	p. 297
Observations on Swahili and Midzichenda plant names	p. 313
Subject index	p. 323
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