African language publishing for children in South Africa: challenges for translators

Autor:	Jacob Marriote Ngwaru, Viv Edwards
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language business.industry Bilingual education media_common.quotation_subject Languages of Africa Public policy Language and Linguistics Education Promotion (rank) Publishing Reading (process) Pedagogy Multilingualism Sociology business Language policy media_common
Zdroj:	International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 14:589-602
ISSN:	1747-7522 1367-0050
DOI:	10.1080/13670050.2011.558618
Popis:	The commitment to multilingualism embedded in the 1996 South African Constitution has wide ranging implications for many aspects of education. This paper focuses on the dearth of teaching and learning materials in African languages required to deliver effective bilingual education, and on the potential role of translation in offering solutions for this problem. Drawing on an analysis of currently available African language books for children and interviews with educators, writers, publishers, translators and organisations concerned with book promotion, it explores issues which have emerged as critical for both the quality and availability of translation. Attention is drawn to the ways in which translation can be perceived to either help or hinder the process of introducing children to reading materials in African languages. The challenges of working in the highly specialised field of children's literature with languages that have undergone varying degrees of standardisation are described. Finally, the ten...
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