Radio time sharing and the negotiation of linguistic pluralism in Zambia

Abstract

The seven (7) main vernacular languages on the Media represent all seventy three (73) tribes found in Tambia (Kapeya l98S: 3). ,The problem is, we have been recognized as a language, so why be mistreated? . . .It remains that the big two or the big four get most of the time. . .But you can't raise these issues because you may be called a rribalist (Anonymous).L Introduction.mass media construct the communicative space of the nation-state, all of a nation's dialects, and language varieties, and the speech communities associated with are automatically drawn into relations with one another.Some languages and may be dominant with a greater quantity and quality of media products, some be represented only minimally, and still others may be completely absent, either or ignored.While there is a growing literature on how such institutional are bound up with the politics of ethnicity and national identity, the ing' of national communities, and the establishment and maintenance of linguistic practices2, it seems to me that three basic issues have remained understudied:(1) How do various institutional practicesdifferentially value languages (and in particular become important in variants), and which aspects of language institutional construction of language value?(2)How do people talk about (and justify or contest) these institutional practices I A much shorter version of this article was presented at the AAA conference, November 23, 1991,.

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