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Das Dossier enthält eine Reihe von Beiträgen zu Problemen mit den Nationalsprachen in Afrika und anderen AKP-Staaten. U.a.: Beziehung von Sprache und Entwicklung; Nationalsprachen im Unterricht; Länderstudien zu Nigeria, Seychellen, Zaire, Simbabwe und Papua-Neuginea; Nationalsprachen und Pressewesen; Lokalsprachen und ländliche Entwicklungsstrategien. (DÜI-Wsl)

This brief paper highlights the perspectives of those proposing and opposing the idea of Minority Language Right (MLR). Then, the paper relates this discussion to the context of bi/multilingualism in Indonesia by referring to cases of bi/multilingualism in different contexts. In particular, it is also discussed whether MLR is relevant to Indonesian, a national language of Indonesia, seen through historical, political, social, and economic perspectives of bi/multilingualism in Indonesia. In the end, the author's stance of MLR is asserted.

Seit den siebziger Jahren gewinnen die lokalen und nationalen afrikanischen Sprachen an Bedeutung im Schulunterricht. Befürchtungen, sie könnten langsam absterben, haben sich nicht bewahrheitet. Staatliche Programme zur Förderung der lokalen und nationalen Sprachen werden u.a. auch von der UNESCO unterstützt. Aufgezeigt werden Probleme im Konflikt zwischen linguistischen und pädagogischen Ansprüchen, zwischen Forschung und Praxis. Vorschläge zur Verbesserung der Sprachenpolitik aus der praktischen Erfahrung. Dazu eine Übersicht zu den gebräuchlichsten Sprachen schwarzafrikanischer Staaten. (DÜI-Wsl)

This article points out the need for the Government and individuals to work on ensuring a better participation of Nigerian languages in national development.

This essay is a critical reaction to the movement for the revival and constitution of guoxue (national learning), not just as a system of indigenous knowledge and scholarship, but also as an embodiment of Chinese national culture. Situating the conceptualisation of guoxue in the context of the May Fourth new cultural movement, the essay attempts to show: a) that guoxue is a category devoid of substance, not least because its classificatory scope cannot be adequately defined, b) that guoxue was invented in the early twentieth century in response to the pressures created by the influx of Western learning that had begun to unsettle and displace forms of classical learning, and c) that the idea of guoxue is rooted in the conviction of the singularity of national culture. Historically, guoxue has opposed such national projects as national language and national literature. Revisiting a selection of representative views of progressive May Fourth and communist intellectuals on the need to develop and construct a new national language and literature for China's modernisation, the essay argues for the need to develop a historical understanding of the process in which classical learning has been displaced and to recognise the importance of this process for the development of China's intellectual modernity. (China Perspect/GIGA)

This paper will focus on national political views on the appropriateness of language planning in relation to respectively the status, the corpus and the acquisition of various languages. In the light of concrete `language policy events' and the debates - parliamentary, in the media and in academic discourse - in relation to these, the aim of the paper is to discuss which domains within language matters are considered objects of national political intervention and for which reasons. French language policy which is relatively explicit will be compared with more implicit Danish language policy. The interrelations of ideologically and pragmatically founded reasons for intervening in various language matters will be discussed: In an internationally oriented world, where cultural and linguistic pluralism prevail at the expense of national homogeneity, which role is left for national language policy, if any? Can a phenomenon which traditionally has been considered mainly as a tool for uniting nations possibly become a tool for granting and improving democracy in modern Western European societies' internal and external communication? Or should national governments once and for all leave such matters to individual choices, EU language policies or market forces? Answering in depth to these broad questions is not the ambition of the paper, whereas outlining tendencies in the ongoing political discourses connected to the issue is the aim, in the light of the approaches in the scientific study of language planning and language policy.