Language Planning and Policy: Ideologies, Ethnicities, and Semiotic Spaces of Power
Ashraf Abdelhay · Sinfree Makoni · Cristine Severo
Feb 2020 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Language policy is heterogeneous and varies according to its object, levels of intervention, purpose, participants and institutions involved, underlying language ideologies, local contexts, power relations, and historical contexts. This volume offers unique cross-cultural perspectives on language planning and policy in diverse African and Middle Eastern contexts, including South Africa, Bahrain, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Zambia, and Algeria. The African diaspora is also considered, as is the case of Brazil. By bringing together diverse contexts in Africa and the Middle East, this volume encourages a dialogue in the burgeoning scholarship on language policies in different regions of Africa and the Middle East in order to inspect the intersection between language policy discourses and their social, political, and educational functions.
About the author
Ashraf Abdelhay is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Arabic Lexicography at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar. His research focuses on the cultural politics of language in Sudan with specific emphasis on the intersection of policy discourses, ideologies and power relations.
Sinfree Makoni teaches in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Program in African Studies at Pennsylvania State University and is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of the North West, South Africa. His main areas of research are language and politics, the intersection between language and health, and philosophies about language.
Cristine Severo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Portuguese at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil. She has conducted research on colonial linguistics, language policy, African languages and resistance.
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