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Kamwangamalu, Nkonko M. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2001
Examines the language planning situation in South Africa, where language has been instrumental in the country's transition from colonialism to apartheid to democracy. Addresses, diachronically and synchronically, the issues of language spread and use, language policy and planning, and language maintenance and shift. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Apartheid, Colonialism, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries