Paradigm Shift in Language Planning and Policy

by Ettien Koffi

The book proposes a paradigm shift in language planning and language policy in Africa. For the past fifty years, the dominant model has been the hegemonic model whereby a language of wider communication (LWC) is imposed on minority languages. It is now time for a paradigm shift in favor of a more egalitarian model in which all the languages spoken in the same country, irrespective of their size, are planned. The paradigm shift concerns four critical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934078107
• ISBN13: 9781934078105
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary