The Political Sociology of the English Language: An African PerspectiveMouton, 1975 - 231 páginas CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. |
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... fact of being emotionally more neutral than French , was less of a hindrance to the emergence of national consciousness in British Africa . But there were other factors , too , about English to be taken into account . Among these was ...
... fact that the foreign language concerned here was the language of the ruling power . In other words , it was not merely the prestige of mastering an additional language to one's own - it was the status of having acquired the master ...
... fact the sum total of all the national and ethnic literatures of Africa . A national literature is one that takes the whole nation for its prov- ince , and has a realised or potential audience throughout its territory . In other words a ...
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Shakespeare | 103 |
Command and Communica | 128 |
Some SocioPolitical Functions of English Literature | 147 |
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