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Publication details [#29348]

Djité, Paulin G. 1993. Francophonie: Gain d´humanité ou perte d´identité? Language Problems and Language Planning 17 (3) : 254–264.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

French

Keywords

developing nation | language dominance | language spread | language status | language use

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper argues that Francophonie constitutes neither a gain in humanity nor a loss of identity, and that the time has come to deal with the linguistic realities of francophone Africa the way they are and to realize that Francophonie participates in the natural process of human evolution.