Overview
- Provides the first encyclopaedic volume of the languages of southern Africa
- Analyses a range of languages from the geographical area of southern Africa and from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives
- Examines the effects of government, education and social and political history on the use and practice of these languages
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This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tomasz Kamusella is Reader at the University of St Andrews, UK. He specializes in language politics and nationalism and has published widely on the topic, including The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Finex Ndhlovu is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. His research specialisms include contemporary linguistic and sociocultural theories of language, identity and sociality in relation to African diaspora communities. His most recent major publication is Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Finex Ndhlovu is Associate Professor at the University of New England, Australia. His research specialisms include contemporary linguistic and sociocultural theories of language, identity and sociality in relation to African diaspora communities. His most recent major publication is Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages
Editors: Tomasz Kamusella, Finex Ndhlovu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-01593-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-01592-1Published: 29 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01593-8Published: 21 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LIII, 372
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Languages, Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and Planning, Language History