32.2499, Books: Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa: Ndhlovu, Makalela

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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:09:52
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa: Ndhlovu, Makalela

 


Title: Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa 
Subtitle: Recentering Silenced Voices from the Global South 
Series Title: Critical Language and Literacy Studies  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781788923347 


Author: Finex Ndhlovu
Author: Leketi Makalela

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788923354 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 129.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788923354 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 89.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788923347 Pages: 208 Price: U.S. $ 34.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788923347 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 24.95


Abstract:

This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is
currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the
enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of
multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then
exported to the Global South under the aegis of colonial modernity and
pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points
of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations
on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of
language – a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language
and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors
begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of
multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of
marginalised and ignored African communities of practice – both on the African
continent and in the diasporas.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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