Date: 30-Oct-2007 From: Kathryn King <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Language Planning and Policy in Africa, Volume 2: Kaplan, Baldauf (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Language Planning and Policy in Africa, Volume 2
Subtitle: Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Tunisia
Series Title: Language Planning and Policy
Published: 2007
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Editor: Robert B. Kaplan
Editor: Richard B. Baldauf
Hardback: ISBN: 1847690114 9781847690111 Pages: 324 Price: U.K. £ 39.95
Hardback: ISBN: 1847690114 9781847690111 Pages: 324 Price: U.S. $ 79.95
Abstract:
This volume covers the language situation in Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Tunisia, explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous and/or have been participants in the language planning context. Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire and Tunisia are not well represented in the international language policy/planning literature, while the section on Nigeria draws together the published literature in this area. The purpose of the volumes in this series is to present up-to-date information on polities that are not well-known to researchers in the field. A longer range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world.
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