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Language Policy at Major Sporting Events
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Djite, Paulin G. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
International sporting events, such as the Olympic Games, are linguistically complex events that require large-scale language planning and policy. This chapter focuses on the Olympic Games and looks at the practicalities of the attitudes and responses to multilingualism and the language policies employed in this particular international event to…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Athletics, International Cooperation, Sport Psychology
Correcting Errors in Language Classification: Monolingual Nuclei and Multilingual Satellites.
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Djite, Paulin G. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1988
Examination of a case of artificial language boundaries (Guere versus Wobe) supports arguments for a monolingual nucleus with multilingual satellites in the Ivory Coast. The Ivory Coast's multiple languages exaggerate linguistic heterogeneity. Integrating language attitude data into language classification could aid the language planning and…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Planning
Les langues africaines dans la nouvelle francophonie (African Languages in the New French-Speaking Community).
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Djite, Paulin G. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1990
It is argued that in the states of Francophone Africa, French is not always the language of the masses and that in light of sociolinguistic data, choice, or actual usage, new language policy accentuating national idioms is more viable than exclusive promotion of French. (38 references) (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: African Languages, French, Language Maintenance, Language Planning
Language Planning in Cote d'Ivoire.
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Djite, Paulin G. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
Discusses the language situation in the Ivory coast. Examines historical and sociopolitical processes and the language policies and language-in-education practices of the country. Shows that the debate on language policy over the last two decades has failed to lead to the adoption of a language plan that takes into account the current language…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, French, Language of Instruction
French in the Ivory Coast.
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Djite, Paulin G. – French Review, 1989
Overviews the Ivory Coast's sociolinguistic situation. Standard French, restricted to the elite, is threatened by the local lingua franca. The spread and functional allocations of Dyula and Popular French support the point that the pervasive use of a language does not always lead to its adoption as a national language. (CB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dyula, Foreign Countries, French
The Spread of Dyula and Popular French in Cote d'Ivoire: Implications for Language Policy.
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Djite, Paulin G. – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1988
In the Ivory Coast, the official standard French has not been established as the language of the masses and is threatened by Dyula and a Popular French, two lingua francas that have potential as national languages even though the populations do not seem supportive of new language policy. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Dialects, Dyula, Foreign Countries, French
From Language Policy to Language Planning: An Overview of Languages Other Than English in Australian Education.
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Djite, Paulin G. – 1994
Based on an Australian study creating sociolinguistic profiles of nine languages other than English (LOTE) commonly used in Australia, the report examines implications for public language policy and planning. The languages are: Arabic; Chinese; French; German; Modern Greek; Indonesian/Malay; Italian; Japanese; and Spanish. The report begins by…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy