The politics of language planning in the Sudan : the case of the Naivasha language policy
The National Congress Party (NCP), representing the government of the Sudan, and the Sudan Peopleâs Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) signed key peace protocols on the 26th May 2004 in the Kenyan town of Naivasha. The Protocol on Powerâsharing contains a significant section on language policy. Having a language policy interwoven within the very discoursal fabric of the Protocol on Powerâsharing is an arena of intense power struggle between the south and the north. Indeed, it has been so since the emergence of the colonial Southern Policy. The historical social struggle between the south and the north of Sudan, which incorporates unequal power relations, is encoded in the linguistic signs of the language policy. The current Interim National Constitution has adopted the Naivasha Language Policy. The study has four main objectives. The first objective is to historicise the Naivasha Language Policy. The study aims to disinvent the ânaturalisedâ notions of âindigenous languagesâ, ânorth Sudanâ, and âsouth Sudanâ by revealing their colonial constructedness. The social and semiotic processes involved in the colonial representation of the discursive differentiation of the âsouthâ from the
Abdelhay, Ashraf K.
Linguistics
The politics of language planning in the Sudan : the case of the Naivasha language policy. The National Congress Party (NCP), representing the government of the Sudan, and the Sudan Peopleâs Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) signed key peace protocols on the 26th May 2004 in the Kenyan town of Naivasha. The Protocol on Powerâsharing contains a significant section on language policy. Having a language policy interwoven within the very discoursal fabric of the Protocol on Powerâsharing is an arena of intense power struggle between the south and the north. Indeed, it has been so since the emergence of the colonial Southern Policy. The historical social struggle between the south and the north of Sudan, which incorporates unequal power relations, is encoded in the linguistic signs of the language policy. The current Interim National Constitution has adopted the Naivasha Language Policy. The study has four main objectives. The first objective is to historicise the Naivasha Language Policy. The study aims to disinvent the ânaturalisedâ notions of âindigenous languagesâ, ânorth Sudanâ, and âsouth Sudanâ by revealing their colonial constructedness. The social and semiotic processes involved in the colonial representation of the discursive differentiation of the âsouthâ from the
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