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In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups—Arab and afro-Mauritanian—have been flaring ever since the nation’s independence. In Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions, El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed investigates the issue of language policy and identity in this North African country. Moulaye Ahmed traces the past and the present Mauritania’s identities and language policies and reveals Mauritanians’ language policy preferences and the relationship between their identities and their preferences.

Table of Contents
Preface

Acknowledgments

Notes on Translation and Transliteration

General Introduction

Chapter One: General Issues in Language Policy and Identity

Chapter Two: The Interplay between Language and Identity and Some Issues in Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

Chapter Three: Socio-political and religious portraits of Mauritania

Chapter Four: language policy and identity in Mauritania

Chapter Five: Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: A Contemporary Empirical Investigation

General Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

About the Author

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      Publisher Lexington Books
      Published 27 May 2020
      ISBN-13 9781793612656
      978-1793612656
      ISBN-10 179361265X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups—Arab and afro-Mauritanian—have been flaring ever since the nation’s independence. In Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions, El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed investigates the issue of language policy and identity in this North African country. Moulaye Ahmed traces the past and the present Mauritania’s identities and language policies and reveals Mauritanians’ language policy preferences and the relationship between their identities and their preferences.

      Table of Contents
      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Notes on Translation and Transliteration

      General Introduction

      Chapter One: General Issues in Language Policy and Identity

      Chapter Two: The Interplay between Language and Identity and Some Issues in Multilingualism and Multiculturalism

      Chapter Three: Socio-political and religious portraits of Mauritania

      Chapter Four: language policy and identity in Mauritania

      Chapter Five: Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: A Contemporary Empirical Investigation

      General Conclusion

      Appendices

      Bibliography

      About the Author

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