The Decolonisation of African Languages: Insights from Southern Africa

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Matters Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI:10.1080/10228195.2022.2138957

P. Chimbunde, Maserole Christina Kgari-Masondo

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Abstract

Abstract In this article, we draw inspiration from the learners’ movement witnessed at the University of Cape Town in 2015, which raised concerns similar to those raised at the Malaysia Conference in 2011 and at University College London in 2014. These concerns focused on the quest for non-Eurocentric paradigms in education. This article evaluates the progress made thus far to decolonise the use of African languages to fight linguicide. Thus, the article seeks to identify, describe, and evaluate what has been done in Southern African countries to answer the decolonial call and its challenges through discussing the prevailing problems of decolonising language policies. Using the decolonisation lens and document analysis, we use South Africa and Zimbabwe as case studies to check the urgency of the effort and then propose tentative actions that go beyond the rhetoric and writings of the decolonisation agenda.

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非洲语言的非殖民化：来自南部非洲的见解

在本文中，我们从2015年开普敦大学的学习者运动中获得灵感，该运动引发了与2011年马来西亚会议和2014年伦敦大学学院类似的关注。这些问题集中在寻求非欧洲中心的教育模式上。本文评估了迄今为止在使用非洲语言以打击语言灭绝的非殖民化方面所取得的进展。因此，本文试图通过讨论非殖民化语言政策的普遍问题来识别、描述和评估南部非洲国家为回应非殖民化的呼吁及其挑战所做的工作。透过非殖民化的视角和文献分析，我们以南非和津巴布韦为个案研究，检视努力的迫切性，然后提出超越非殖民化议程的言论和文字的初步行动。

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期刊介绍： The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.