Exploring the micro-social dynamics of intergenerational language transmission: a critical analysis of parents's attitudes and language use patterns among Ndamba speakers in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.advisorStroud, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorLipembe, Pembe Peter Agustini
dc.contributor.otherDept. of Linguistics, Language and Communication
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Arts
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-24T09:25:25Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-27T09:17:49Z
dc.date.available2011/02/16 08:04
dc.date.available2011/02/16
dc.date.available2014-01-24T09:25:25Z
dc.date.available2024-03-27T09:17:49Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionPhilosophiae Doctor - PhDen_US
dc.description.abstractThe study has several implications; for general theoretical traditions it highlights the point that ambivalent attitudes and incomplete language use are responsible for gradual language decline. Previous studies while acknowledging the role of community based, intuitive conditions on language maintenance and shift, did not show how the process occurred. For policy the study aims toward sensitizing policy makers and raise their awareness about the dire situation in which minority languages currently are in. This would ensure that politicians, bureaucrats, and other state authorities could implement policy decisions that guarantee protection of minority languages and enhance their vitality. One policy strategy that could ensure revitalization of minority languages would be to include them in the school curriculum as supplementary approach to the effort of the home and the community, as McCarty (2002, quoted in Recento, 2006) observes that schools; [�] �can be constructed as a place where children can be free to be indigenous in the indigenous language - in all of its multiple and everchanging meanings and forms� (p. 51).en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9974
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectLanguage maintenanceen_US
dc.subjectIntergeneration transmissionen_US
dc.subjectLanguage attitudesen_US
dc.subjectLanguage use patternsen_US
dc.subjectLinguistic ecologyen_US
dc.subjectLanguage socializationen_US
dc.subjectLanguage social networksen_US
dc.subjectFamilyen_US
dc.subjectBilingualismen_US
dc.subjectEthnic identityen_US
dc.subjectNdambaen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.titleExploring the micro-social dynamics of intergenerational language transmission: a critical analysis of parents's attitudes and language use patterns among Ndamba speakers in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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