Publications

Publication details [#53653]

Abdelhay, Ashraf. 2010. A critical commentary on the discourse of language rights in the Naivasha language policy in Sudan using habitus as a method. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (206) : 21–45.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | language of instruction | language policy | minority language | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Languages, Sudanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study on the linguistic habitus of subjugated Sudanese groups, argues that the language rights discourse in the Naivasha language policy in Sudan cannot approbate local languages as educational tools without handling the possibilities of engendering the economic and social conditions for their usage.