Explorations into Language Use in Africa

Contents : Augustin Simo Bobda: Introduction - Joshua A. Fishman: Leadership trajectories in the language planning process - René Dirven/Martin Pütz: Language conflict seen from the viewpoint of the rationalist and romantic models - Vic Webb: The sustainability of South Africa's pluralist language policy - Kembo Sure: Promotion and sustenance of multilingualism: Partnership between the private sector and the government - Pius N. Tamanji: Globalization and African languages: Regression in linguistic diversity - Ngessimo M. Mutaka: Ecosystem of the Vute-Banyo area and language endangerment - Michel Kenmogne: Tone assignment on nominal forms in Bakoko - Douglas Pulleyblank: Yoruba vowel patterns: Asymmetries through phonological competition - Augustin Simo Bobda: Predictability of word stress in African English: Evidence from Nigerian English and Cameroon English - Paul Mbangwana: Discourse and self-validation as hallmarks of advertisement - Kasper Juffermans: Local emplacement and global identities in signboard and billboard literacies in urban Gambia - Lothar Peter/Hans-Georg Wolf: Compiling an exclusive dictionary of West African English: A report on work in progress.