{"product_id":"language-and-development-in-africa-h-ekkehard-wolff-9781107459670","title":"Language and Development in Africa: Perceptions, Ideologies and Challenges","description":"Development is based on communication through language. With more than two thousand languages being used in Africa, language becomes a highly relevant factor in all sectors of political, social, cultural and economic life. This important sociolinguistic dimension hitherto remains underrated and under-researched in 'Western' mainstream development studies. The book discusses the resourcefulness of languages, both local and global, in view of the ongoing transformation of African societies as much as for economic development. From a novel 'applied African sociolinguistics' perspective it analyses the continuing effects of linguistic imperialism on postcolonial African societies, in particular regarding the educational sector, through imposed hegemonic languages such as Arabic and the ex-colonial languages of European provenance. It offers a broad interdisciplinary scientific approach to the linguistic dimensions of sociocultural modernisation and economic development in Africa, written for both the non-linguistically trained reader as much as for the linguistically trained researcher and language practitioner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. Ekkehard Wolff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107459672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107459670\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d","brand":"H. Ekkehard Wolff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44450035859711,"sku":"9781107459670","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ccee4d75-016f-4ea7-b42c-3d549ef429ea.jpg?v=1698502404","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/language-and-development-in-africa-h-ekkehard-wolff-9781107459670","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}