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This book is interdisciplinary, drawing on the sociology and politics of language, African linguistics, African history and social history in general. It focuses on the various issues related to multilingualism in West Africa, but is also relevant to multilingual situations in Third World countries generally. Although the book is aimed at the educated general reader, it should also be of interest to language specialists and students of Third World politics.
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Multilingualism and Nation Building Multilingual Matters (Series) ; 91
author
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Mansour, Gerda.
publisher
:
Multilingual Matters
isbn10 | asin
:
1853591742
print isbn13
:
9781853591747
ebook isbn13
:
9780585149721
language
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English
subject
Multilingualism--Africa, West, Sociolinguistics--Africa, West, Language policy--Africa, West.
publication date
:
1993
lcc
:
P115.5.A358M36 1993eb
ddc
:
306.4/46/096
subject
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Multilingualism--Africa, West, Sociolinguistics--Africa, West, Language policy--Africa, West.
Page i
Multilingualism and Nation Building
Page ii
Multilingual Matters
Alsatian Acts of Identity LILIANE M. VASSBERG
Attitudes and Language COLIN BAKER
Breaking the Boundaries EUAN REID and HANS H. REICH (eds)
Citizens of This Country: The Asian British MARY STOPES-ROE and RAYMOND COCHRANE
Community Languages: A Handbook BARBARA M. HORVATH and PAUL VAUGHAN
Continuing to Think: The British Asian Girl BARRIE WADE and PAMELA SOUTER
Education of Chinese Children in Britain and the USA LORNITA YUEN-FAN WONG
Key Issues in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education COLIN BAKER
Language, Culture and Cognition LILLIAM MALAV and GEORGES DUQUETTE (eds)
Language in Education in Africa CASMIR M. RUBAGUMYA (ed.)
Language and Ethnicity in Minority Sociolinguistic Perspective JOSHUA FISHMAN
Language Planning and Education in Australasia and the South Pacific R. B. BALDAUF and A. LUKE (eds)
Linguistic Minorities, Society and Territory COLIN H. WILLIAMS (ed.)
Multilingualism in India D. P. PATTANAYAK (ed.)
Reversing Language Shift JOSHUA A. FISHMAN
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Bilingual Education CHRISTINA BRATT PAULSTON
System in Black Language DAVID SUTCLIFFE with JOHN FIGUEROA
The World in a Classroom V. EDWARDS and A. REDFERN
Please contact us for the latest book information: Multilingual Matters Ltd, Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7SJ, England
Page iii
Multilingual Matters 91 Series Editor: Derrick Sharp
Multilingualism and Nation Building
Gerda Mansour
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD Clevedon Philadelphia Adelaide
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Mansour, Gerda, 1937 Multilingualism and Nation Building/Gerda Mansour p. cm.) Multilingual Matters: 91) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Multilingualism-Africa, West. 2. Sociolinguistics-Africa, West. 3. Language policy-Africa, West. I. Title. II. Series. P115.5.A358M36 1993 306.4'46'096-dc20
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 1-85359-175-0 (hbk) ISBN 1-85359-174-2 (pbk)
Multilingual Matters Ltd
UK: Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7SJ. USA: 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007, USA. Australia: P.O. Box 6025, 83 Gilles Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
Copyright 1993 Gerda Mansour.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by the Longdunn Press, Bristol.
Page v
Contents
Introduction
1
1 Language Diversity in Africa: Myth or Reality?
11
Defining linguistic diversity
12
A sociolinguistic assessment of linguistic diversity
16
Multilingualism and communication
20
History and environmenttwo factors conditioning language use
21
2 The Spread of the Manding Language and the Emergence of Vertical Multilingualism
26
Manding origins and environment
28
Long distance trade, state formation and language spread
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