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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Colonial Language"”.
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The Post-Colonial Language and Identity Experiences of Transnational Kenyan Teachers in U.S. Universities
… experienced marginalization of their African languages and identities in both the Kenyan and the United States contexts, but reclaimed those languages and identities as important assets in their teaching of English language. The study asked: What are the post-colonial language and identity …
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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages
… where English and French are official state languages and Dagara is the shared local language. Dagara is a language spoken by about 1,400,000 people in the Northwestern corner of Ghana, the Southwestern part of Burkina Faso and the Northeastern part of Côte d’Ivoire. This partitioning is a …
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By Community, with Community: Decolonial Recommendations for Collections Management Policies in Museums
… that govern museums and that produce and sustain colonial language and practices. I focus on the impact of CMPs on community museums, and I conclude with recommendations for decolonial interventions, with the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago (FAHSC) serving as the central case study …
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Language Planning and Education: The Case of Namibia
… assumptions underlying the Namibian English-only language policy stated in Article 3(1) of The Constitution of the Republic of Namibia (1990). The document stipulates educational provision for Namibian learners who belong to multilingual, ethnolinguistic and socio-economic groups. Since this …
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Bwana asifiwe in the USA : language and identity in East African Christian fellowships in the United States
… investigates the linguistic repertoires and language attitudes of transnational populations from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, who have established Kiswahili-language churches and Christian fellowships across the United States. Data was collected over a two-year period at national East African …
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A Capability Approach to Understanding the Intersections between Language, Educational Opportunities, and Identity in South Africa: A Xhosa Speaking Youth Perspective
The education system is a source of language discrimination and exclusion for many young people in South Africa. In South Africa, African languages are spoken by more than 70% of the population, while the colonial languages English and Afrikaans represent less than 25%. However, most South African …
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… kinship in the context of non-belonging, settler colonialism and impossible citizenship. Through turning to a diverse range of works by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, Dion Bouicault, Harriet Jacobs, and E.Pauline Johnson, “The Grammar of Kinship” examines how enslaved and formerly …
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Implementation of South African Government Language Policy in Public Institutions: A Case Study of Siloam Hospital
… implementation of the South African Government Language Policy within public institutions, using Siloam Hospital, a district hospital located in the rural Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, as a case study. Rooted in the constitutional recognition of twelve official languages, including the …