" ... [based on] the first International MIDP Symposium, " Multilingualism and Exclusion", hosted jointly by the University of the Free State, the University of Antwerp and the University of Ghent in Bloemfontein from 24 to 26 April 2006."--Acknowledgements.
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Contents
Introduction/ P Cuvelier. Multilingualism and exclusion: policy, practice and prospects/ A Bamgbose -- Laughing it off: multi-national corporations, brand identity and the language of exclusionS Cawood and J S du Toit -- Language visibility and language exclusion: the case of the monolingual number plate of the Free State province/ T du Plessis -- Implications of the stocktaking study of mother-tongue and bilingual education in sub-Saharan Africa: who calls which shots?/ K Heugh -- Eliminating dialect variation in Catalan local television: limitations and queries/ B Jardi -- The monolingual testing of competence: acceptable practice of unfair exclusion/ E Koch -- Language exclusion: the role of ideological preconceptions, attitude to language and the lack of political will/ J Lubbe -- Multilingualism as injustice: African claims on colonial language policies in the Belgian Congo/ M Meeuwis -- Dilemmas of language maintenance and shift amongst Indian South Africans/ R Mesthrie --^
Overcoming cultural exclusion -- globalisation and localisation strategies in literary translation/ J Naude -- Multilingualism and exclusion: American Sign Language and South African Sign Language/ T Reagan -- Hispanic heritage language speakers in the United States: linguistic exclusion in language education/ S Schreffler -- Linguistic plurality and the learning of the school language/ C Siques and I Vila -- The challenge of language policy in a multilingual nation/ B Spolsky -- Exclusion and inclusion in Europe: the search for a European language policy/ H Tonkin -- Exclusion of minority groupings on the basis of language in South Africa, as reflected in the printed media/ E Truter -- The perception of exclusion and proximity through the use of standard Dutch, "tussentaal" and dialect in Flanders/ R Vandekerckhove and P Cuvelier -- Language management rowards diversity and unity at a recently merged South African university/ E Versluys --^
The notion of exclusion in the language attitudes of young urbanites in Dakar -- English in higher education in South Africa: exclusion or inclusion?/ V Webb.