Language Contact and Language Conflict

LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LANGUAGE CONFLICT
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical orientations: The interaction of language and culture
Radical cultural difference: Anthropology's myth?
	Notes
	References
Culture, cognition, and grammar
	1. General considerations
		1.1. Locus of language and culture
		1.2. A cyclic model
		1.3. Degrees of dependence
		1.4. Overlap vs. inclusion
	2. Linguistic structure
		2.1. Lexicon and grammar
		2. 2 Culture in grammar
		3. Summary
		Bibliography
Areal influence on grammaticalization
	1.Introduction
	2. Comparative constructions
		2.1. Event schemas
		2.2. Propositional structures
	3. Areal characteristics
	4. Conclusions
	Notes
	References
'Cultural scripts': A new approach to the study of cross-cultural communication
	1. Introduction
	2. Introducing cultural scripts
		2.1. Linguistic evidence for cultural norms: The Japanese particle
		2.2. Linguistic evidence for cultural norms: English tag questions
		2.3. Disagreement Polish style: Preference for the acute angle
	3. Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Language and cross-cultural communication
	1. Introduction
	2. Cultural interference in communication
	3. Verbal communication and cultural conflict
	4. Implications of intercultural communication
	References
Communication disruptions: On benefits and disadvantages of language contact
	1. Multiculturality
		1.1. The present state of multicultural affairs
		1.2. Interculturality as biography
		1.3. History of migration
	2. Language contact
		2.1. Between euphoria and isolation
		2.2. A short typology of language contact
		2.3. Some consequences of language contact
	3. Identity and loss
		3.1. Language functions
		3.2. Language contact - too much to expect?
	4. Disruption and integration
	Notes
	References
Part II: Case studies: The manipulation of languagein intercultural contact
European languages in African society and culture: A view on cultural authenticity
	1. Introduction
	2. A theoretical perception on language and society
		2.2. A notion of cultural authenticity
	3. Cultural structures and language behaviour
	4. 'Indigenization' of English and French as creation of open structures
		4.1. The authentic roles of English and French in a historical process
	5. Conclusion
	References
The context of language planning in Africa: An illustration with Nigeria
	1. Introduction
	2. Language planning decisions
	3. Types of context germane to language planning decisions in Africa
		3.1. The language context
		3.2. The socio-political context
		3.3. The psychological context
		3.4. The administrative/political context
		3.5. The educational context
		3.6. General trends in language planning policy options in multilingual nations
		3.7. Some traits of a forward-looking language planning policy for a multilingual context
	4. Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
A prognosis for language management in the Third Republic
	1. Language planning models and modules
	2. The use of surveys
	3. The triglottic configuration
	4. Projection of language use
		4.1. Public utilities
	5. Language and the states
	6. Local government areas
	7. Prognosis of language development, beyond 1992 and the Third Republic
	Notes
	Bibliography
Revalorizing the autochthonous languages of Africa
	1. The problem
	2. Why should the autochthonous languages be promoted?
	3. Do African leaders support the revalorization of the autochthonous languages?
	4. How should the autochthonous languages be revalorized?
		4.1. Revalorization - a definition
		4.2. Status planning
		4.3. Corpus planning
		4.4. Summary
	5. Problems with language revalorization in African states
	6. Conclusion
	Notes
	Bibliography
Cultural variation in the interrelation of speech acts and turn-taking
	0. Introduction
	1. The Data
		1.1.
		1.2.
	2. The 'paradigms'
	3. Speech acts
	4. Turn-taking
	Notes
	References
Intercultural contact and communication in South-east Papua New Guinea
	1.1. Introduction
	1.2. The area
	2. Pre-colonial period
		2.1. Strategy 1: the use of non-verbal communication
		2.2 Strategy 2: learning one another's languages
		2.3. Strategy 3: the use of a third common language as lingua franca
		2.4. Strategy 4: the development of an auxiliary language as lingua franca
	3. Colonial period
	4. Post-colonial period
	5. Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Towards an independent and ethnically pure Flanders
	1. Another break-through of the extreme right in Flanders
	2. Confusion on all sides
	3. One's own people first, and the migrants out
	4. Figures concerning foreigners in Flanders
	5. Belgium, the arch-enemy
	6. Epilogue
	Bibliography
Subject Index