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Speaking as Citizens: The Politics of Discourse in Multilingual Africa
Speaking as Citizens: The Politics of Discourse in Multilingual Africa
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105617
- ISBN
- 9798265428417
- DDC
- 497
- 서명/저자
- Speaking as Citizens: The Politics of Discourse in Multilingual Africa
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Stanford University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 220 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Laitin, David;Ober, Josiah.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약How does the lack of a shared national language affect how states relate to citizens, and citizens to one another? This dissertation examines this question in the linguistically diverse context of sub-Saharan Africa where, lacking majority native languages, states generally use former colonial languages for official purposes. However, in most cases, few citizens speak these languages fluently, potentially placing limits on their civic engagement. To empirically ground the dissertation's investigation, Chapter 1 provides a quantitative description of the language situation in twenty sub-Saharan African states. In contrast to notions of African states as linguistically fractionalized, I show that most states feature a lingua franca spoken by a popular majority, though this is often a creole or an indigenous variety other than the state's official language. The second chapter introduces an original field survey and experiment conducted in Senegal, examining the impact of language policy choice on citizens' capacities for civic discourse. Citizens' capacities prove to be on average strongest in the lingua franca, rather than in the official language, suggesting that state prioritization of unfamiliar official languages may be inimical to the emergence of high quality, broadly participatory civic discourse.Chapter 3 uses process tracing to propose an answer to how the approach to language policy commonly found in sub-Saharan Africa may have developed. Testing observable implications of several possible policy rationales against evidence from interviews with Senegalese state functionaries reveals that under certain conditions, it can be rational for states to maintain self-evidently disadvantageous language policies. That maintenance is rational, however, does not determine whether it is normatively permissible, as Chapter 4 explores. Here, states' practice of promulgating beneficial language policies on which they do not follow through is shown to constitute a wrongful form of hypocrisy, in that states do not fulfill performance obligations created by their own promulgated law. Last, Chapter 5 returns to the empirical reality that linguistically diverse populations in sub-Saharan Africa are shifting toward statewide lingua francas, examining how major normative theories of diversity would assess this phenomenon. Multiculturalism, as political theory's dominant approach to diversity, is found to feature weakly grounded presumptions against this sort of linguistic assimilation, necessitating a turn to the more ethnographically informed thought of ancient historians to permit disinterested assessment.In sum, the dissertation provides both an empirical assessment of language policy's political impact and a novel conceptualization of the role of language in civic relations.
- 일반주제명
- Native languages
- 일반주제명
- Assimilation
- 일반주제명
- Verbal communication
- 일반주제명
- State employees
- 일반주제명
- Language policy
- 일반주제명
- Families & family life
- 일반주제명
- Multilingualism
- 일반주제명
- Linguistics
- 일반주제명
- Ethnicity
- 일반주제명
- Cultural heritage
- 일반주제명
- Professions
- 일반주제명
- Bilingual education
- 일반주제명
- Ethnic studies
- 일반주제명
- Public policy
- 기타저자
- Stanford University.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■650 4▼aFamilies & family life
■650 4▼aFrench as a second language
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■650 4▼aLinguistics
■650 4▼aEthnicity
■650 4▼aCultural heritage
■650 4▼aProfessions
■650 4▼aBilingual education
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17360773▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


