Languages and Language Planning in Zimbabwe - Softcover

Makoni, Sinfree

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1735487600 ISBN 13: 9781735487601

Publisher: Iaislc, 2020

Synopsis

This fourth volume of Sinfree Makoni's selected papers focuses on language planning and policy, language in education, linguistic ideologies, missionary linguistics in Zimbabwe and the relations among the national, indigenous and minority languages of Zimbabwe (especially English, Shona and Tonga). Includes papers written in collaboration with Janina Brutt-Griffler, Busi Makoni, Pedzisai Mashiri, Nicholus Nyika and Charles Pfukwa.

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About the Author

Sinfree Makoni was born in Zimbabwe and holds a BA (hons) degree in English with Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has held a number of professional appointments in Southern Africa including at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He currently is an Extra Ordinary Professor at the University of the North West, South Africa and is an Andrew Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow at Laikipia University in Kenya. In the United States he currently teaches in the Department of Applied Linguistics and in the Program in African Studies, at Pennsylvania State University. He has published extensively in Decolonial Integrational Linguistics, Colonial Linguistics and Language Policy and Planning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Iaislc
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1735487600
• ISBN 13: 9781735487601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352