The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages

Tomasz Dominik Kamusella; Finex Ndhlovu

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-01593-8

The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages

Tomasz Dominik Kamusella (Editor), Finex Ndhlovu (Editor)

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Basingstoke
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	425
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-137-01593-8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-137-01592-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-01593-8
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Keywords

Southern Africa
language politics
social history
political history
globalization
Language creation
language destruction
imperialism
linguistic imperialism

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