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Publication details [#27579]

Mazrui, Ali A. 1996. Language planning and gender planning: Some African perspectives. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (118) : 125–138.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

developing nation | gender | language planning | women's vs. men's language

Language as a subject

Languages, African

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper deals with African language planning as part of a gender reform, envisaging female empowerment through the combination of traditional economic centrality and modern language skills and gender rights.