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Mbugua, Peter |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2016-03-21T09:00:43Z |
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dc.date.available |
2016-03-21T09:00:43Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://erepo.usiu.ac.ke/11732/2243 |
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dc.description |
A Colloquium presentation by Peter Mbugua on 3rd March 2016 at USIU-A |
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dc.description.abstract |
Key concepts and ideas
•Natural language(s) as a part of ecological reality e.g. native languages, ‘full’ languages
•Monolingual societies versus bilingual societies ( and individuals)
•Hybrid or contact languages (pidgins-ism and creole-ism) e.g. sheng
•Invasive species ( inspired by biological studies)
•Metro-lingualismand revisiting sheng
•Diglossiaas a tool to aid competence in target languages in Education
Linguistic ecology
•As part of wider environment ecology
•Premium on diversity ( UN document: our diversity, our cultures)
•Natural languages and desire to maintain them ( language purists)
•Fully developed grammatical, semantics and phonological systems with elaborate language acquisition frameworks
•Traditional/mainstream communities
•Monolingual societies versus bilingual societies ( exclusive versus language contact situations)
•Urbanization and globalization in spread of bilingualism |
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dc.publisher |
United States International University - Africa |
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dc.subject |
Societal bilingualism |
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dc.title |
Societal bilingualism and the emergence of “invasive” language species: the case of Sheng |
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dc.type |
Presentation |
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