Language attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa : a sociolinguistic overview
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Language attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa : a sociolinguistic overview
（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 103）
Multilingual Matters, Ltd., c1994
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Bibliography: p. 122-130
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An informative sociolinguistic and sociopolitical description and analysis of language attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa. The book emphasizes the strong ideological and polemical view that multilingualism in sub-Saharan Africa should seen as a resource and an asset. It argues, therefore, that African indigenous languages need to empowered for greater functions to ensure effective mass mobilization, literacy, and total and original self-actualization.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Language Scenario in Sub-Saharan African Countries
2. The Sociohistorical Foundations of Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa
3. Language Attitudes Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
4. Small Languages, Big Languages: Attitudinal Dimensions of Language Speaker Power and Numbers in Sub-Saharan Africa
5. Attitudinal Perspectives of Language Use in Education
6. Some Implications of Language Attitudes Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Appendix: Questionnaire on Language Attitudes
by "Nielsen BookData"