Governmental Writers and African Readers in Rhodesia.

Cripwell, Kenneth R.

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Publication Date: 1975

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Governmental Writers and African Readers in Rhodesia

Cripwell, Kenneth R.

Language in Society, 4, 2, 147-154, Aug 75

The simplified documents produced by the British and Rhodesian governments to explain the settlement proposals to Africans are compared in terms of syntactic complexity and lexical choice, and in terms of the audience to which the documents are addressed. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Difficulty Level, Government Publications, Language Styles, Official Languages, Syntax, Vocabulary, Written Language

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Identifiers - Location: Africa; Rhodesia

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