This study explores the argument that postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial European countries at the turn of the 21st Century. It focuses on the external LSPs developed by the governments of Portugal, Brazil, United Kingdom, France and Germany towards Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau from the 1990s to the present. The study offers a perspective on the web of relationships involving European ex-colonial powers and the African postcolonial countries of Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The author seeks to examine the development of external (European) LSPs and the construction of politico-linguistic blocs in a complex context whilst taking into account the colonial heritage and its lingering dependencies, the construction and maintenance of nationhood and the increasing globalisation of the world.
| ISBN: | 9783631644362 |
| Publication date: | 29th May 2013 |
| Author: | Carla Figueira |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 355 pages |
| Series: | DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture |
| Genres: |
Comparative politics Sociolinguistics Language teaching theory and methods Literary studies: general Regional / International studies Political structure and processes |
This study explores the argument that postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial European countries at the turn of the 21st Century. It focuses on the external LSPs developed by the governments of Portugal, Brazil, United Kingdom, France and Germany towards Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau from the 1990s to the present. The study offers a perspective on the web of relationships involving European ex-colonial powers and the African postcolonial countries of Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The author seeks to examine the development of external (European) LSPs and the construction of politico-linguistic blocs in a complex context whilst taking into account the colonial heritage and its lingering dependencies, the construction and maintenance of nationhood and the increasing globalisation of the world.
Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the Turn of the 21 st Century features in the following genres: Comparative politics, Sociolinguistics, Language teaching theory and methods, Literary studies: general, Regional / International studies, Political structure and processes
Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the Turn of the 21 st Century is available in Hardback
Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the Turn of the 21 st Century was written by Carla Figueira and published by Peter Lang AG
Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the Turn of the 21 st Century has 355 pages