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Speaking as Citizens: The Politics of Discourse in Multilingual Africa
Speaking as Citizens: The Politics of Discourse in Multilingual Africa
Speaking as Citizens: The Politics of Discourse in Multilingual Africa

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202105617
ISBN  
9798265428417
DDC  
497
저자명  
DeJarnett, Camille A.
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  
French as a second language
일반주제명  
Multilingualism
일반주제명  
Linguistics
일반주제명  
Ethnicity
일반주제명  
Cultural heritage
일반주제명  
Professions
일반주제명  
Bilingual education
일반주제명  
Cultural resources management
일반주제명  
Ethnic studies
일반주제명  
Foreign language instruction
일반주제명  
Individual & family studies
일반주제명  
Public policy
기타저자  
Stanford University.
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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