Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania

Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions

El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1265-6 (ISBN)

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The inseparable relationship between language and identity has created many problems for countries with multilingual and multicultural diversity. El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed explores the issue of language policy and identity in Mauritania as a case study.

In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups—Arab and afro-Mauritanian—have been flaring ever since the nation’s independence. In Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions, El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed investigates language policy and identity in this North African country. Moulaye Ahmed traces the past and the present Mauritania’s identities and language policies and reveals Mauritanians’ language policy preferences and the relationship between their identities and their preferences.

El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed is lecturer of English linguistics at the University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Translation and Transliteration
General Introduction
Chapter One: General Issues in Language Policy and Identity
Chapter Two: The Interplay between Language and Identity and Some Issues in Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Chapter Three: Socio-political and religious portraits of Mauritania
Chapter Four: language policy and identity in Mauritania
Chapter Five: Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: A Contemporary Empirical Investigation
General Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	37 tables; 1 graphs;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 228 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-7936-1265-X / 179361265X
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-1265-6 / 9781793612656
Zustand	Neuware