SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

Name:

Judith Nakayiza

Email address:

judna@soas.ac.uk

Thesis title:

Language policy and planning in Uganda

Year of Study:

First year

Internal Supervisors

• Lutz Marten

PhD Research

This study looks at the language policy and language management in Uganda, reviewing the language practices, beliefs and ideologies, and evaluating all this on the basis of theory and the existing literature. The study examines the language situation, and language policy and planning in Uganda in order to develop an understanding and a critical analysis of the theory and practice of language planning and policy. It aims at elaborating a model of language policy and planning and a strategy of implementation that accommodates the linguistic complexity of multilingual societies. It seek to answer issues regarding the nature of Uganda's linguistic complexity, the language policy situation, the relevance of LPP theory to the linguistic situation in Uganda, and the sociolinguistic situation of language policy and planning in Uganda (attitudes about languages and policy reforms) among others.