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Paradigm Shift in Language Planning and Policy

Paradigm Shift in Language Planning and Policy

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [Csl], Book 101

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1934078107
ISBN13: 9781934078105
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jan 16 2012
Pages: 347
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The book proposes a paradigm shift in language planning and language policy in Africa. For the past fifty years, the dominant model has been the hegemonic model whereby a language of wider communication (LWC) is imposed on minority languages. It is now time for a paradigm shift in favor of a more egalitarian model in which all the languages spoken in the same country, irrespective of their size, are planned. The paradigm shift concerns four critical areas: status planning, cost-benefit planning, acquisition planning, and corpus planning.

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