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Matiki, A.J. 2003. Linguistic Exclusion and the Opinions of Malawian Legislators. Language Policy 2 (2) : 153–177.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

institutional context | language of wider communication | language use | lingua franca

Language as a subject

Chichewa | English

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

ISBN

1568-4555

Annotation

This paper investigates Malawian legislators' opinions with respect to the efficiency of introducing Chichewa, the national lingua franca, into the Malawi National Assembly as an alternative language to help those legislators who are not sufficiently competent in English.