Language and Colonialism (applied Linguistics in the Context of Creole Communities)
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Isabelle Léglise, CNRS, UMR 8133 CELIA, BP8, 7 rue Guy Moquet 94801 Villejuif, France fax: +33-1-49583827, [email protected] The choice of language and the use to which it is put are central to a people’s definition of itself in relation to its natural and social environment, indeed in relation to the entire universe. Hence language has always been at the heart of the two contending social forces [imperialism and the struggle for liberation from imperialism] in the Africa of the twentieth century (Ngũgĩ 1985:109)
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