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Abdelhay, Ashraf; Eljak, Nada; Mugaddam, AbdelRahim; Makoni, Sinfree – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The sociolinguistic repertoires of individuals in Sudan are products of institutionalised orders of normalisation. The visibility of language in popular and official discourses in Sudan is always linked with wider cultural and political projects. This paper intends to engage with and explicate this observation by, first, examining how the dominant…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Language Usage, African Languages, Semitic Languages
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Abdelhay, Ashraf Kamal – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
Linguistics is implicated in the colonial project of the invention of "self-contained" "racial" and "tribal units" in the Sudan. This paper has two objectives. First, to historicise the notions of "language" in the postcolonial discourse of language planning in the Sudan by reviewing one of the significant…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ideology, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries