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Accounting for Vox Populi. Adjusting the Cost-Benefit Model of Language Planning by Incorporating Network Analysis in the Ghanaian Context

Wright, Kelly E.
2017
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978-88-8303-821-1
http://hdl.handle.net/10077/14307
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978-88-8303-822-8
Abstract
Language planning is a formal or informal problem-solving administrative activity which “advocate[s for] either expanding or restricting the resources of a language” and is aimed at total adoption of a language-use strategy on a national level (Haugen 1966a; Kloss 1969; Haarman 1990). This activity has often relied on a cost-benefit analysis structure to choose and eventually implement an official language on a national level. This work investigates such choices made during the independence period in Ghana and advocates for editing the cost-benefit strategy going forward by incorporating network analysis to provide government leaders with a cohesive sociolinguistic valuation of alternatives for their consideration.
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  • Ghana

  • Ghanaian

  • Language Planning

  • Indigenous Language

  • Cost-Benefit Analysis...

  • Rational-Choice Model...

  • Network Analysis

  • Nationalism

  • Kwame Nkrumah

  • Pan-Africanism

  • Sociolinguistics

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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Kelly E. Wright, "Accounting for Vox Populi. Adjusting the Cost-Benefit Model of Language Planning by Incorporating Network Analysis in the Ghanaian Context", in: "Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored. Proceedings of the ATrA closing workshop Trieste, May 25-26, 2016", Ilaria Micheli (ed.), Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017, pp. 291-305
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