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Direct linkStell, Gerald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study sheds light on the socio-economic factors determining the (re)location of sociolinguistic prestige in postcolonial environments. It uses the case of Namibia, an ethnolinguistically diverse African country that replaced Afrikaans -- an established lingua franca -- with English as its official language to weaken the hold of the formerly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Language Attitudes, Socioeconomic Influences
